Hunebed D53 - Havelte NL - Megalithic Monuments on Waymarking.com

The dolmen is located north of the Hunebeddenweg, a side road of the Van Helomaweg. The dolmen was built during the Funnel Beaker Culture.

D53 is one of the largest dolmens of the Netherlands (only D27 in Borger is greater). The dolmen has 21 carrier stones, 2 and 9 keystones capstones. The port is also still there, complete with 4 carrying stones and one capstone. To see the big oval wreath are 10 stones. Special is that there are two dolmens close together.
On the other side of the road is the smaller D54.

In the 19th century, bought the Dutch State the dolmen of the farmers marke in Havelte.
By order of the Germans was the tomb in the Second World War demolished for the purpose of constructing a semblance airport. After the war, the dolmen was rebuilt on the original site.
Because there were in the study in 1918 drawings of this dolmen could be quite precisely reconstructed.

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Type: Dolmen Parking: Not Listed Number: 34.00 Size: Length / Width 18.9 m / 4.4 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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Date Logged Log User Rating   02/18/2022 scrapcar visited it 02/10/2021 DaarZijnZeWeer visited it 10/11/2011 DosHermanas visited it

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