Town Hall Square

At Town Hall Square, only 5 minutes’ walk from the National Museum and in the heart of today’s Copenhagen with traffic whizzing by, archaeologists were shocked and delighted to find 18 graves from the latter part of the Viking Age: from the mid-10th century to the early 1100s women, men and children were buried here. The presence of both adults and children suggests there was a general family settlement here, outside the area previously thought to be inhabited at that time. This cemetery also suggests that by the 1000s there were at least two churches in the city.