Hunebed D19 - Drouwen NL
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N 52° 57.120 E 006° 47.106
32U E 351202 N 5869226
Dolmen D19 located at Steenhopenweg near Drouwen, The Netherlands.
Waymark Code: WMNN4V
Location: Drenthe, Netherlands
Date Posted: 04/07/2015
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The province of Drenthe has many dolmen, called "Hunebed" in Dutch.
D19 originally had eight capstones.
The most western are missing. 2 are only fragments present and lying on the bottom of the grave. The other five are (now) neatly on the supporting stones. The four port side stones are complete. The longstanding beside the gate lying goteborg boulder was promoted to port capstone in September 1998. After this in February 2006 by vandals again the carrying stones were tipped off, the authorities have the stone again placed beside the door.
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Type: Dolmen
Parking: N 52° 57.131 E 006° 47.064
Number: 29.00
Size:
Length / width 15.5 m / 3.5 m
Source:
The rocks of the Dutch dolmen are thought to have been moved here during the Ice Age, when the land ice stretched to the middle of the country as we now know it.
Purpose:
Even though "hunebedden" are often thought to be burial grounds, there is ample evidence that corpses were burnt instead of buried. Some of the "hunebedden" do contain artifacts thought to be to help deceased people on their last voyage.
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