Hunebed D1 - Steenbergen NL
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dreamhummie
N 53° 06.292 E 006° 24.627
32U E 326652 N 5887069
Dolmen D1 located in the forest Noorder Duinen near Hamlet Steenbergen, The Netherlands.
Waymark Code: WMRAKR
Location: Drenthe, Netherlands
Date Posted: 06/01/2016
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`Steenbergen 'used to be a common name for a dolmen in Drenthe. The Steenbergen name will be derived from the substantial dolmen lying there.
It is located on a dirt road through the woods of the Noorderduinen.
Nice to know: when Professor Van Giffen all Drenthe megalithic tombs gave a D number, he began to count from the most northwestern corner of the province. Hence the 'first' Drenthe megalithic tomb located in Steenbergen!
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Type: Dolmen
Number: 18.00
Size:
length / width 11.6 m / 3,6m
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.
Parking: Not Listed
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