Denmark’s biggest stone – Damestenen
It would be a bit boring if we only visited places where we have already been a couple of times, so here is something new: the Damestenen, literally the Woman Stone.
What exactly is it? According to this website,
Damestenen is not originally from Denmark, it was brought here from the southern Sweden by ithe Baltic Glacier under the last ice age, and is called a boulder. The stone is 10 meters tall, has a circumference of 45.8 meters and weighs 1000 tons. Damestenen consists of medium-grained granite, it is red-gray and in several places it has narrow strip of the igneous rock diabase.
Where is it located?
During former excursions, we had seen road signs to this stone, but somehow we never seemed to have time to go there. In the meantime, we had become very curious, so this time we simply had to have a look at it. And we were impressed!
Here are the other pictures!
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Ha ha, somehow this seems very Danish.
How so?
Well, I don’t want to be rude to the Danes, it’s just that I’ve had a couple of very boring visits to Denmark, to flat, featureless bits under grey skies. I have also seen some fine buildings in Denmark and I know there are pretty parts, but the stone just made me think that they were desperately grasping at straws to find something of interest. I’m sorry, I feel terrible about saying this, my apologies for insulting all Danes. I happen to know some very nice ones!
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Everything depends of course on how you define “interesting” and “boring”. I thought it just looked odd, such a big stone in the middle of nowhere. But the best of the trip is still to come 
That’s very true, I look forward to seeing the best bit!
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What an interesting piece of history to this boulder, just amazing, it is huge.
Yes, it is! I had never seen anything like this!
Is there some story behind the name?
— YUR
There are several legends, and one of them claims that the stone was thrown there by a female giant.
Wow, brought by a glacier huh? Way cool!
Very cool!
… you needn’t go all the way to Denmark to find such huge boulders. What about dear old Belgian Limburg, where you have the so-called “Holstenen”: monolites, known and used already during prehistoric times as a “polish stone” for (stone) weapons (http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Holsteen). This lead to some very astonishing archeological findings, amongst which the arrow point known as “Zonhovenspits”.
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Worth a visit! Especially because they are surrounded by a protected nature reserve, de Teut: (http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teut_(natuurgebied)).
An interesting and relaxing day trip, quoi
Very good idea!
Just say when, dear
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There is a road in Long Island called Shelter Rock, that is named after a massive boulder Native American tribes used for shelter way back when. It is the largest boulder on the island and was also brought by a glacier…
Maybe one day, we can come to America to have a look at it
We’d love to have you!