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Hunebed D24 is een van de vijf hunebedden gelegen bij de plaats Bronneger in de Nederlandse provincie Drenthe. Het hunebed D24 vormt samen met het nog kleinere D23 en het wat grotere D25 een wat apart en meer in het bos gelegen groepje
Van D24 en D23 zijn maar weinig stenen bewaard gebleven, ze zijn nauwelijks te herkennen zijn als hunebed
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Hunebed D24 is one of the five dolmens located at the town of Bronneger in the Dutch province of Drenthe. Together with the even smaller D23 and the somewhat larger D25, the dolmen D24 forms a somewhat separate and more group located in the forest.
Few stones of D24 and D23 have been preserved, they are hardly recognizable as a hunebed [
Informatie over en meer foto's van de hunebedden rond Borger: www.ipernity.com/doc/294067/52709202
Ipernity ontdekken: www.ipernity.com/explore
Informatie over en meer foto's van de hunebedden in Rolde: www.ipernity.com/doc/294067/51066232
Ipernity ontdekken: www.ipernity.com/explore
De 'Strubben-Kniphorstbos' gelegen tussen Schipborg en Annen op de Drentse Hondsrug is het enige archeologische reservaat in Nederland. In dit half-open gemengd bos komen namelijk veel grafheuvels, oude karrensporen en hunebedden voor.
Staatsbosbeheer heeft hier een schitterende wandeling van ± 9 km. uitgezet.
De grillig gevormde Eiken zijn een typisch verschijnsel in het Esdorpenlandschap; ze zijn gelegen tussen de essen en de heide als een beschermende strook om de akkerbouwgewassen op de es te behoeden voor stuifzand vanaf de heide. Op weg naar die heide vraten de schapen aan de jonge eiken, die steeds maar weer nieuwe uitlopers produceerden en daardoor deze een 'misvormde' groei laten zien. Toen de meeste schapen zo'n 100 jaar geleden van het toneel verdwenen, zagen de Eiken kans om tot grote bomen uit te groeien.
Dolmen D20 (Dutch: Hunebed D20) lies together with hunebed D19 west of the village Drouwen on the Steenhopenweg in the Dutch province of Drenthe. The dolmens are about 15.5 meters apart.
Dolmen / Hunebed D20 is 11.3 meters long and 3.4 meters wide. The special thing about this dolmen is that the ring stones that originally formed the foot of the burial mound have largely been preserved. There are still 21 to see, on the spot of the other six Van Giffen has placed plombes.
There are still five capstones from the original six. There is a gate cover stone on the four gate stones.
Near the dolmens is an old cart track of a prehistoric road.
Please read more about the history of the dolmens or megaliths at How they built a dolmen (Hunebed).
This is what we saw during our Cycling holiday in Drenthe, the Netherlands, where we have cycled through the beautiful landscape.
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This is one of the many hunebedden (dolmens) - chamber tombs - located in Drenthe, the Netherlands. These hunebedden were built around 3,500 BC and 53 out of the 54 in the Netherlands are in Drenthe. Hunebedden were constructed using megaliths and were then usually covered over with earth or smaller stones. What is left now is the 'skeleton' of the structure. I believe the stones used in these burial tombs are glacial erratics - stones carried by glaciers over many thousands of years from places as far away as Norway back in the Ice Age.
Dolmen G1 in Noordlaren, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Vorige week in opdracht van Marketing Groningen een paar foto's gemaakt van het Noordlaarderbos en de Hunebedden G1, D3 en D4. Dit is een foto van het Hunebed G1 in Noordlaren, Groningen.
More info: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/G1_(hunebed)
Fuji X-E2 + Fujinon 10-24mm at 14mm, f/16, 0.6 sec. exposure at ISO 200.
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About 200,000 years ago, before the dolmens (Dutch: Hunebedden), there was an ice age in Europe. Large parts of the Netherlands were covered with ice and so is the area that is now called Drenthe.
The glaciers that went on Drenthe took over from Scandinavia boulders along. These huge boulders took thousands of years to achieve Drenthe.
About 5000 years ago there lived in the Drenthe Funnelbeaker people (Dutch: Trechterbekervolk) and these people decided to build from all boulders that roamed a tomb, and so this are the dolmens or megalithic tombs.
Read more about the history of the dolmens or megaliths at my other pictures.
This is what we saw during our Cycling holiday in Drenthe and Groningen, the Netherlands, where we have cycled through the beautiful landscape.
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Just outside Emmen in Drenthe, the Netherlands is located on a hill in the woods Dolmen D45 (Dutch: Hunebed D45). This specimen belongs to the larger dolmens.
This Dolmen with a length of about 18 meters is already pretty close to Dutch largest in Borger, namely dolmen D27 with its 22.6 meters.
6 of 9 original stones are still present, but some are in the crypt. What is also special about this dolmen is that 13 kerbstones are still present.
Read more about the history of the dolmens or megaliths at my other pictures.
This is what we saw during our Cycling holiday in Drenthe and Groningen, the Netherlands, where we have cycled through the beautiful landscape.
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Location: Valthe - Drenthe - the Netherlands.
Exposure: 2 brackets of +/-2 Ev at f/8, mounted on a Manfrotto 190.
Description: This shot was taken a couple of days ago on an afternoon in a village called Valthe in the province Drenthe. Valthe is rich of prehistoric treasures like very large rocks called Hunebedden. Hunebedden were used as sepulcher cellars by occupants of Drenthe approx. 5000 years ago, which they used to bury heir deceased ones.
Of course I was distracted again by this beautiful landscape, so I didn't take much pictures of prehistoric sepulchers and tombstones thas afternoon. But I will and post them later, I promise :)
Technique: HDR: slightly Tone-Mapped with PS color adjustment, Selective Color and Hue/Saturation layers, selective contrast adjustments with a custom Curve layer.
Instead of my usual approach of tone-mapping three exposures with a 2-stop difference each - which in most cases isn't even enough for the best results - this time I only used two: the correct exposed version and the +2 Ev overexposed one. The -2 Ev underexposed version would have added only tons of sensor junk otherwise.
Selective sharpening was done with the Unsharp Mask filter to get the results I was after, which is particularly true for the trees in the background. A Hue/Saturation layer was used to achieve overall toning by adjusting the blue, red, yellow, cyan and green values slightly. The final temperature was created by a slight tweak in both the White and Neutral areas within the Selective Color layers' dialog. Imho, this approach is the same - if not better - then adjusting the white point balance in RAW converters.
Hunebedden are the oldest monuments in the Netherlands. They were built more than 5000 years ago by people of the Funnel Beaker Culture- the first farmers in northern Europe- who buried their dead in these megalithic tombs.
ISO 100, 21mm, f/8.0 1/30 sec, Lee Seven5 soft grad 2stops
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Location: Valthe - Drenthe - the Netherlands.
Exposure: 2 brackets of +/-0 Ev and +2 Ev at f/8, mounted on a Manfrotto 190.
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Description: This shot was taken this afternoon in a village called Valthe in the province Drenthe. Valthe is rich of prehistoric treasures like very large rocks called Hunebedden. Hunebedden were used as sepulcher cellars by occupants of Drenthe approx. 5000 years ago, which they used to bury heir deceased ones.
Of course I was distracted by this beautiful landscape, so I didn't take much pictures of these prehistoric sepulchers and tombstones this afternoon. But I will in later posts, I promise :)
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Technique: HDR Tone Mapping & PS color and contrast adjustments.
Instead of my usual approach of tonemapping three exposures with a 2-stops difference each - which is in most cases even not enough for best results - this time I used just two: +-0 Ev and +2 Ev. The underexposed -2 Ev version didn't add anything useful to the image which I had in mind.
Selective sharpening was done with a masked High Pass layer. Usually I combine a High Pass filter with the Unsharp Mask to get the results I'm after, but this time only the High Pass was enough. A Hue/Saturation layer was used to achieve overall toning by adjusting the blue, yellow and cyan values. The final temperature was created by slightly tweaking both the White and Neutral areas in a Selective Color layer, which is almost the same - if not better - then adjusting the white point - temperature - in your RAW converter. Hope this helps at least someone.
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Description: Taken at Valthe, a small village near Emmen in the province Drenthe, the Netherlands. Valthe is rich of prehistoric treasures like very large rocks called Hunebedden. Hunebedden were used as sepulcher cellars by occupants of Drenthe approx. 5000 years ago, which they used to bury heir deceased ones.
Technique: HDR: triple blending Tone-Mapped version and final contrast / color adjustments in PS with Selective Color and Hue/Saturation layers, selective contrast adjustments with a custom Curve layer. Local sharpening with Unsharp Mask and High Pass Filter.
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Location: Valthe - Drenthe - the Netherlands.
Exposure settings: f/8, ISO 50, Bias: -/+2 EV.
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Dolmen
an ancient burial structure, one of the types of megalithic structures. Dolmens were built from huge stone slabs weighing tens of thousands of kilograms placed vertically and supporting one or several flat slabs. They were one of the first examples of integral architectural composition based on the laws of architectonics. Dolmens usually contained the remains of several dead with stone or bronze weapons and ornaments. Some dolmens were used for burials over a few decades or even centuries. It is assumed that they were originally constructed for the burial of tribal elders. According to another hypothesis, they initially served as tribal sanctuaries and only later were converted into burial places. Dolmens are widespread in the coastal regions of Europe, North Africa, and Asia. In the USSR they are found along the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus and in the Crimea. In Europe and North Africa dolmens date from the Bronze Age; in India and Japan, from the Iron Age; and in the Caucasus, from the Early and Middle Bronze Age (the second and third millennia B.C.), with some built as late as the first millennium B.C.
Holland is a flat country. There are no mountains or rocks. But in the north of the country within a radius of only 30 kilometers, 53 megalithic monuments are scattered over a beautiful landscape. Granite skeletons of 5500 years old burial chambers. Where did these 20 ton boulders come from, how were they piled up and by whom and why..? What is the mystery behind these relics from the past..? If you want to know.
Everyone has heard of Stonehenge in England and dolmens and menhirs in France. But who knows of even older and more numerous megalithes in The Netherlands..? Even most of the Dutch themselves are unaware of the richness of the prehistoric monuments in their own country. But they exist..!,and they are there for over 5000 years. Older than the Egyptian pyramids! Built of huge granite stones, some of them weighing over 25,000 kilograms, dragged to the spot and piled up to form a rectangular stonegrave. Unbelievable, but true.
There are still 54 of them. 52 in the province of Drenthe and 2 in the adjacent province of Groningen. "Hunebedden" as they are called in this country. But not built by Hunen (or huynen = giants) and not beds but graves as we know now. So Drenthe, in the northern part of the country, is the hunebedden-province. It's a province of outstanding beauty with sanddunes, woods, moors, heather, picturesque villages, 200 years old farmhouses with thatched roofs. And mysterious stonegraves..!
In Drenthe there are no mountains or rocks. But hunebedden are made of huge stones. Where did they come from..? The answer is: from Scandinavia. About 200,000 years ago, during an ice-period, most of northern Europe including our country was covered by a thick layer of ice. The big boulders of which the hunebedden are made of have been transported to The Netherlands by slow moving ice-glaciers. Even today, digging in Drenthe's soil, smaller and bigger stones emerge.
About 4000 BC the hunters that visited Drenthe before, changed their culture and lifestyle radically. They learned to grow wheat, to domesticate cattle and to build farmhouses. They settled here as the first farmers in the region. Archaeologists call this period the Neolithics or New Stone Age. This did not happen only here but also in the south of Sweden, in Denmark and the northwest of Germany. These farmers cut the woods with stone axes and cultivated the arable land. About 3450 BC they started building huge stonegraves using the big boulders that were scattered all over the place. They also made all sorts of earthenware, many of them in the form of a funnel. Because of that archaeologists say this people belong to The Funnel Beaker Culture.
So there is no mystery after all..? Yes there is. The big question remains unanswered. Why did these simple farmers make such a tremendous effort to drag those heavy boulders to a construction site and pile them up to making a huge stonegrave? And how on earth did they do this..? There are several theories but even today it would be a hell of a job..! A feeling of great astonishment and admiration remains.
Hunebed D21 en D22
Bij het plaatsje Bronneger ten noorden van Borger kunt u maar liefst vijf hunebedden vinden. Hunebed D21(links) is het mooiste hunebed van de vijf omdat het zeer compleet is en omdat er de meeste archeologische vondsten zijn gedaan. Aan dit hunebed zit een enorme grote beuk vast, wat een schilderachtig plaatje vormt. Hunebed D22(rechts) ligt op een steenworpafstand en heeft dezelfde structuur als D21 maar is wel in slechtere staat. Dit is het kleinste hunebed wat er in Drenthe nog staat.
At almost 18 metres long, D53 is the second largest hunebed (dolmen) in the Netherlands.
It was erected 3400 till 3100 BC. Together with D27 it is the best example of the neolithic hunebed builders’ art in the North Netherlands. It numbers 21 upright sidestones, 4 keystones and 9 lintels which, since a restoration project in 1991, rest neatly in place on their supports. There is also a fine entrance portal, complete with 4 sidestones and 1 lintel. The closure at the western end of the burial chamber is also remarkable in having 3 keystones: 1 large and 2 smaller ones.
Under the supervision of Professor Van Giffen D53 has been the subject of a thorough archaeologic research and not without success. In and under the floor of the burial chamber, researchers found potsherds of 665 pieces of pottery, 3 stone axes, an arrow-point, a bludgeon, and 4 amber beads. Never before so many artifacts had been found in a hunebed.
In 1945 the fate of this marvelous hunebed seemed to be sealed. The German Army that occupied Holland demanded this megalithic monument to be dismantled for the construction of an airfield. The inevitable demolition took place, but the Dutch authorities had taken their precautions: all 50 big and smaller boulders were pushed into a 6 meter deep pit in the ground by a shovel. Immediately after the war the stones were dug up again and in 1949 the restoration started. In 1950 the hunebed showed off again in all its glory as if nothing had happened!
(www.hunebednieuwscafe.nl/ + www.hunebedden.nl/)
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I received many questions about how 5000 years ago, the big boulders moved to build a Dolmen. Here with the drawing a brief explanation.
The dolmen (Dutch: Hunebed) builders moved the heavy stones on tree trunks. That they rolled on the ground. The actual construction could begin as the stones in the right place.
First, two large stones were dug up in the sand. Then that were propped up with wooden beams.
Between the beams and the stone small boulders were deposited. Then a large stone over it, the capstone.
If the small stones and sand were removed part of the dolmen was ready. Finally there was still a layer of sand over it, the deck hill. Thus, you could not see that there is a dolmen underneath.
At most dolmens, the sand in all those centuries flushed away, so they were visible again.
See and read here more about the: Dolmens / Hunebedden
This is what we saw during our Cycling holiday in Drenthe and Groningen, the Netherlands, where we have cycled through the beautiful landscape.
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Dolmens are a quite common phenomenon in the northern provinces of the Netherlands. Especially the province Drenthe is well known for its over 50 of them. They are extremely old and reside from a periode about 4000–3000 BC. Our ancesters - very old tribes - used these locations to burry their relatives.
The dolmens (Dutch: Hunebedden) are built by the Funnel Beaker culture around 3000 BC. This culture piled the heavy boulders from the area together to make a grave monument. In Drouwen there is a set of two dolmens, a so-called duo-hunebed. Such duos are not very common in the Netherlands.
On the photo you see Dolmen (Dutch: Hunebed) D19. Excavations under D19 uncovered remains of 400 pots, 13 flint axes, 9 barn stone pearls, 6 pieces cupper and human remains.
This makes D19 one of the few hunebedden containing human remains...
Hunebed D19 is covered by five of his eight original capstones.
Read more about the history of the dolmens or megaliths at How they built a dolmen (Hunebed).
This is what we saw during our Cycling holiday in Drenthe, the Netherlands, where we have cycled through the beautiful landscape.
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Just outside Drouwen in Drenthe, the Nederlands these two dolmens (Dutch: hunebedden) lie very close to each other and for that reason they are sometimes called the “Twins of Drouwen”.
The first dolmen / hunebed in Drouwen 'D19' on the right is 15.5 meters long and 3.5 meters wide. The letter 'D' stands for 'Drenthe'. The hunebed consists of nine trilithons. A trilithon is a set of two upright side stones with a lying capstone on top. Of the nine capstones, the hunebed has five more. Four gate side stones are present at the entrance of this hunebed.
The second dolmen / hunebed D20 on the left has a length of 11.3 meters and a width of 3.4 meters. D20 is made up of seven trilithons. One capstone is missing. This dolmen / hunebed also had two trilithons as an entrance party. Another four port side stones are left. The hunebed has had a stone wreath. Most of these cornerstones are still around the hunebed.
Please read more about the history of the dolmens or megaliths at How they built a dolmen (Hunebed).
This is what we saw during our Cycling holiday in Drenthe, the Netherlands, where we have cycled through the beautiful landscape.
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Xziva & Lily, the XL obvious being her :) the L, little me .
Thought this week i would combine my two 52 weeks, the 52 weeks for dogs and the 52 weeks of Beyond Layers. We had the challenge to stop hiding behind our camera and step in front of it. I have been wanting to do a shot of Xziva and i because i suddenly realized there are no photo's of me with any of my Danes and we've had 6 !!!! already, i thought that was really sad so here it is.
I don't like being in front of the camera , like so many others ,but why do we hate that so much ??? Okay i liked my face better when i was 30 :) but i also feel that i deserve every laughing line, because that is what they are :)
This june i will be 65 !!!! but inside i don't feel any different from when i was 30.
I changed so much since then, cut of my long long hair, started wearing contactlenses and lost a lot of weight !! I'm pretty happy with me i can honestly say !!! but i'm always open to change :))
Not doing the joy challenge because my week 13 was already joy :)
This link shows you the Hunebed where we are and you can see all the Hunebeds/ Dolmens in Holland.
At the bottom of this link you can click on " Frontpage" to read more about the Dolmens in Holland.
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicitpermission.
Europe, Netherlands, Drenthe, Aa en Hunze, Balloo, Hunebed (uncut)
The landscape of Drenthe…..its long history is evocated by the lazy rhythm of the pushed moraines (stuwwallen), ancient burial mounds, megalithic dolmen (hunebedden) and ‘Celtic’ fields….they give it a slightly mysterious feel, especially when you hike through it with the sun low in the sky with a little mist above the horizon.
The Hunebed (dolmen / portal tomb) on display here is number D16 (there are 54 in Drenthe) and is near Balloo. It’s a single-chamber megalithic tomb, consisting of 2 rows of 9 upright stones which support 8 capstones (one stone is missing). At both ends of the hunebed are closing stones. Hunebedden are an artifact of the Neolithic 'Funnelneck beaker' culture (ca 4300 BC–ca 2800 BC) – it was a sedentary culture formed by the first farmers of Northern Europe.
The stones used for the hunebedden were not local, they originated from the Baltic and were pushed to this region by the giant gletschers of the second ice age, 150.000 years ago.
After assembly, the big stones were either covered with dirt or with smaller stones to form a barrow or a cairn. In many instances, that cover disappeared thru erosion, leaving only the stone skeleton of the burial mound intact. Hunebedden were probably not used as primary graves but as ossuaries.
(During our Peleponnesos (Greece) tour in 2013 we visited ancient Lerna in the Argolis, which was founded in the Early Neolithicum. Long before that that we visited the Oppidia d'Ensérune & de Nages in the Languedoc (France) which were founded at about the same time. When we were exploring Lerna we remembered that and realized that we still hadn't visited the Neolithic Hunebedden in Drente which are basically 'round the corner'. It took a while to 'correct' this, but now we did.)
Hunebedden are the oldest monuments in The Netherlands. They were erected 3500 years ago by the first farmers, from Scandinavian rocks transported south by glaciers during the ice ages. The tree is of a later date.
Europe, Netherlands, Drenthe, Drentse Aa riverine, Brook, Footbridge (uncut)
The landscape of Drenthe…..its long history is evocated by the lazy rhythm of the pushed moraines (stuwwallen), ancient burial mounds, megalithic dolmen (hunebedden) and ‘Celtic’ fields….they give it a slightly mysterious feel, especially when you hike through it with the sun low in the sky with a little mist above the horizon.
This shot was taken in the partly marshy riverine of the Drentse Aa, a delightful and almost pastoral place crossed by shallow brooks.
It's made accessible for the hiker by a set of small dirtroads, narrow wooden walkways and little footbridges.
[from hunebedden.nl] D53 is the second largest hunebed in the Netherlands (D27 is 'the first') and one with a remarkable history.
It counts 9 capstones, all of them resting nicely on their foundations, consisting of 23 sidestones and 2 endstones. There is a complete porch with 4 passage sidestones and 1 capstone. Of the big oval wrench, 10 kerbstones are still there.
Under the supervision of Professor Van Giffen D53 has been the subject of a thorough archaeologic research and not without success. In and under the floor of the burial chamber, researchers found potsherds of 665 pieces of pottery, 3 stone axes, an arrow-point, a bludgeon, and 4 amber beads. Never before so many artifacts had been found in a hunebed.
In 1945 the fate of this marvelous hunebed seemed to be sealed. The German Army that occupied the Netherlands demanded this megalithic monument to be dismantled for the construction of an airfield. The inevitable demolition took place, but the Dutch authorities had taken their precautions: all 50 big and smaller boulders were pushed into a 6 meter deep pit in the ground by a shovel. Immediately after the war the stones were dug up again and in 1949 the restoration started. In 1950 the hunebed was restored.
Europe, Netherlands, Drenthe, Assen, Cornfield (uncut)
The landscape of Drenthe…..its long history is evocated by the lazy rhythm of the pushed moraines (stuwwallen), ancient burial mounds, megalithic dolmen (hunebedden) and ‘Celtic’ fields….they give it a slightly mysterious feel, especially when you hike through it with the sun low in the sky with a little mist above the horizon.
Even a simple scene like this, a sloped cornfield near Assen with the sun slicing through it, seems to be touched by this mystery.
Late summer early autumn on the Drenthe heather, far from the main roads. Ancient lands, home of the Hunebedden. For centuries shepards with their flocks of sheep wandered around in Drenthe, actually many still do. The "drents heideschaap" is a 2000 year old race of sheep, small as dogs and can be found in some of the many schaapskooien in Drenthe that stil exist today.
Dolmens from the Neolithic era.
Photo: Richard Poppelaars © #AboutPixels #Photography (Apple iPhone 11 Pro) / #Neolithic #Hunebed #Dolmens - #Hondsrug #GeoparkdeHondsrug #UNESCO / #Hunebedden at #Bronneger #DeHondsrugUNESCOGeopark in #Borger, #Drenthe - #Netherlands
At this location a group of five dolmens (D21, D22, D23, D24 and D25) located near the place Borger - Bronneger in the province of Drenthe. Dolmen D21 contained most of the archaeological finds dated to 3400 BC. It is also the most photogenic dolmen due to the huge beech tree. Also a short distance away are two burial mounds from the Bronze Age.
Photo September 2021, Bronneger Dolmens (Neolithic period - 4000-3000 BC) after +/- 5421 years in time.
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De Hondsrug UNESCO Geopark - Hunebed (Dolmen) - a megalithic burial chamber from the Neolithic (4000-3000 BC) of the Trechterbeker (Funnelbeaker) culture. As a portal grave built from huge stones that were dragged along by the ice from southern Sweden and Finland during the Ice Age for about 150,000 years. There are 52 dolmens in Drenthe and two in Groningen and traces of dolmens have been found in at least thirty other places, but without the large stones. Originally there would have been at least 88 dolmens in the Netherlands.
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UNESCO Geopark de Hondsrug - the only European Geopark in the Netherlands, a landscape with ridges and valleys that originated in the Ice Age about 150,000 years ago. Known for the various Dolmens from the Neolithic and burial mounds dating from the Bronze Age. In 2016, the Hondsrug was added to Unesco Geopark areas.
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A dolmen—also known as a portal tomb, portal grave, dolmain (Irish), cromlech (Welsh), anta (Portuguese and Galician), Hünengrab/Hünenbett (German), Adamra (Abkhazian), Ispun (Circassian), Hunebed (Dutch), dös (Swedish), goindol (Korean) or quoit—is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of three or more upright stones supporting a large flat horizontal capstone (table). Most date from the early Neolithic period (4000 to 3000 BCE). Dolmens were usually covered with earth or smaller stones to form a barrow, though in many cases that covering has weathered away, leaving only the stone "skeleton" of the burial mound intact.
It remains unclear when, why, and by whom the earliest dolmens were made. The oldest known dolmen are found in Western Europe, where they were set in place around 7000 years ago. This would date them alongside the ancient civilisations of Egypt, India and the Middle East.[citation needed] Archaeologists still do not know who erected these dolmens, which makes it difficult to know why they did it. The most widely accepted theory[citation needed] is that all dolmen are tombs or burial chambers. Human remains, sometimes accompanied by artefacts, have been found in or close to them, which allowed a scientific dating. There is however no firm evidence that even this theory is correct. It has been impossible to prove that these archeologic remains date back to the time when the stones were set in place.[1]
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Dit hunebed is een van de pronkstukken van Drenthe. Het is het allergrootste hunebed van Nederland met een lengte van 22,5 meter. Naast dit hunebed is het Hunebedcentrum te vinden waar u veel leuke en interessante informatie over de hunebedden in Drenthe kunt vinden en in het speciaal natuurlijk hunebed D27. Het is een aanrader om uw hunebeddentocht bij dit Hunebedcentrum te beginnen waar u oude voorwerpen kunt bezichtigen maar ook interactieve spellen kan spelen, kortom voor jong en oud! Het adres van het Hunebedcentrum is Bronnegerstraat 12 Borger en van daaruit loopt u zo naar Hunebed D27.
Dolmens from the Neolithic era.
Photo: Richard Poppelaars © #AboutPixels #Photography (Apple iPhone 11 Pro) / #Neolithic #Hunebed #Dolmens - #Hondsrug #GeoparkdeHondsrug #UNESCO / #Hunebedden at #Bronneger #DeHondsrugUNESCOGeopark in #Borger, #Drenthe - #Netherlands
A group of five dolmens (D21, D22, D23, D24 and D25) located near the place Borger - Bronneger in the province of Drenthe. Dolmen D21 contained most of the archaeological finds dated to 3400 BC. It is also the most photogenic dolmen due to the huge beech tree. Also a short distance away are two burial mounds from the Bronze Age.
Photo September 2021, Bronneger Dolmens (Neolithic period - 4000-3000 BC) after +/- 5421 years in time.
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De Hondsrug UNESCO Geopark - Hunebed (Dolmen) - a megalithic burial chamber from the Neolithic (4000-3000 BC) of the Trechterbeker (Funnelbeaker) culture. As a portal grave built from huge stones that were dragged along by the ice from southern Sweden and Finland during the Ice Age for about 150,000 years. There are 52 dolmens in Drenthe and two in Groningen and traces of dolmens have been found in at least thirty other places, but without the large stones. Originally there would have been at least 88 dolmens in the Netherlands.
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UNESCO Geopark de Hondsrug - the only European Geopark in the Netherlands, a landscape with ridges and valleys that originated in the Ice Age about 150,000 years ago. Known for the various Dolmens from the Neolithic and burial mounds dating from the Bronze Age. In 2016, the Hondsrug was added to Unesco Geopark areas.
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Location: Valthe, in the province of Drenthe, the Netherlands.
Description: Taken at a small village called Valthe near Emmen in the province Drenthe, the Netherlands. Valthe is rich of prehistoric treasures like huge rocks called Hunebedden. Hunebedden were used as sepulcher cellars by occupants of Drenthe approx. 5000 years ago, which they used to bury heir deceased ones.
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Dolmens from the Neolithic era.
Photo: Richard Poppelaars © #AboutPixels #Photography (Apple iPhone 11 Pro) / #Neolithic #Hunebed #Dolmens - #Hondsrug #GeoparkdeHondsrug #UNESCO / #Hunebedden at #Bronneger #DeHondsrugUNESCOGeopark in #Borger, #Drenthe - #Netherlands
At this location a group of five dolmens (D21, D22, D23, D24 and D25) located near the place Borger - Bronneger in the province of Drenthe. Dolmen D21 contained most of the archaeological finds dated to 3400 BC. It is also the most photogenic dolmen due to the huge beech tree. Also a short distance away are two burial mounds from the Bronze Age.
Photo September 2021, Bronneger Dolmens (Neolithic period - 4000-3000 BC) after +/- 5421 years in time.
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De Hondsrug UNESCO Geopark - Hunebed (Dolmen) - a megalithic burial chamber from the Neolithic (4000-3000 BC) of the Trechterbeker (Funnelbeaker) culture. As a portal grave built from huge stones that were dragged along by the ice from southern Sweden and Finland during the Ice Age for about 150,000 years. There are 52 dolmens in Drenthe and two in Groningen and traces of dolmens have been found in at least thirty other places, but without the large stones. Originally there would have been at least 88 dolmens in the Netherlands.
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UNESCO Geopark de Hondsrug - the only European Geopark in the Netherlands, a landscape with ridges and valleys that originated in the Ice Age about 150,000 years ago. Known for the various Dolmens from the Neolithic and burial mounds dating from the Bronze Age. In 2016, the Hondsrug was added to Unesco Geopark areas.
A dolmen (also known as cromlech (Welsh), anta, Hünengrab, Hunebed, Goindol, quoit, and portal dolmen) is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of three or more upright stones supporting a large flat horizontal capstone (table). Most date from the early Neolithic period (4000 to 3000 BC). Dolmens were usually covered with earth or smaller stones to form a barrow, though in many cases that covering has weathered away, leaving only the stone "skeleton" of the burial mound intact.
"Dolmen" originates from the expression taol maen, which means "stone table" in Breton, and was first used archaeologically by Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne. The etymology of the German Hünenbett or Hünengrab and Dutch Hunebed all evoke the image of giants building the structures. Of other Celtic languages, "cromlech" derives from Welsh and "quoit" is commonly used in Cornwall. Anta is the term used in Portugal, and dös in Sweden.
Megalithic tombs are found from the Baltic Sea and North Sea coasts south to Spain and Portugal. Hunebedden are chamber tombs similar to dolmens and date to the middle Neolithic (Funnelbeaker culture, 4th millennium BC). They consist of a kerb surrounding an oval mound which covered a rectangular chamber of stones with the entrance on one of the long sides. Some have a more complex layout and include an entrance passage giving them a T-shape. It has been suggested that this means they are related to the passage graves found in Denmark and elsewhere.
Dolmen sites fringe the Irish Sea and are found in south-east Ireland, Wales, Devon and Cornwall. In Ireland, however, dolmens are more to be found on the west coast, particularly in the Burren and Connemara, where some of the more well-known examples, such as Poulnabrone dolmen, are to be found. Examples have also been found in northern Ireland where they may have co-existed with the court cairn tombs. It is thought that the dolmens themselves evolved from a simpler cist burial method.
A great many examples can also be found on the Channel Island of Jersey, such as La Pouquelaye de Faldouet, La Hougue des Géonnais and La Sergenté. The most famous of these sites is La Hougue Bie a 6,000 year old neolithic site that sits inside a large mound; later a chapel was built on the top of the mound.
Amongst the vast Neolithic collections of the Carnac stones in Brittany, France, several dozen dolmens are found. And all around the country, several dolmens still stand, such as the ones of Passebonneau and des Gorces near Saint-Benoît-du-Sault.
Various menhirs and dolmens are located around the Mediterranean islands of Malta and Gozo. Pottery uncovered in these structures allowed the attribution of the monuments to the Tarxien cemetery culture of the Early Bronze Age.[1] This later culture is not to be confused with the Neolithic inhabitants of Malta, who built the Tarxien Temples circa 3100 BC.
In France, important megalithic zones are situated in Brittany, Vendée, Quercy and in the south of France (Languedoc, Rouergue and Corsica). More than 10,000 dolmens and menhirs cover a large part of the country (west and south). Importants menhirs alignments in Brittany (Carnac's alignments count more than 1,000 menhirs)
In Spain dolmens can be found in Galicia (such as Axeitos, pictured below), Catalonia (like Romanyà de la Selva or Creu d'en Cobertella) and Andalusia (like the Cueva de Menga).
Dolmens can be found all over Portugal, from simple ones [1] to the more complex examples of megalithic architecture, such as the Almendres Cromlech or the Anta Grande do Zambujeiro.
In Mecklenburg and Pomerania (Germany) and Drenthe (The Netherlands), large numbers of these graves were disturbed when harbours, towns, and cities were built. The boulders were used in construction and road building. There are still many thousands left today in Europe.
In Italy some dolmens can be found in the south (Puglia) and in Sardinia.
In Bulgaria there are many dolmens, and more are being recorded by archaeologists.
The largest dolmen in Europe is the Brownshill Dolmen in County Carlow, Ireland. Its capstone weighs about 150 tonnes
Les dolmens de Kerbourg ou aussi "dolmens de l'ile de la Motte", sont des allées couvertes situées sur la commune de Saint-Lyphard, à proximité du Village de La Madeleine (commune de Guérande), dans le département de la Loire-Atlantique, en France.
Les dolmens de Kerbourg sont situés au sud-ouest du hameau de Kerbourg, près de La Madeleine, à peu près à mi-distance entre Saint-Lyphard et Guérande, sur le bord d'un champ et est accessible grâce à un chemin, à coté des moulins.
Lors du défrichement des landes en 1874-1876 au sommet de la colline de Kerbourg, près des moulins à vent, deux dolmens ont été dégagés. Le ou les (?) cairns ont alors été arasés ne laissant que la partie mégalithique en place.
L'aspect de ces sépultures devait être celui du cairn de Gavrinis, ou celui du tumulus de Dissignac à Saint-Nazaire.
Les dolmens de Kerbourg sont classés à l'inventaire des monuments historiques depuis 1951.
Datant du néolithique ancien ou moyen (vers 4500 / 4000 avant JC), d'une longueur de 7 mètres et d'une largeur de 3, souvent qualifié d'allée couverte, il s'agit en réalité d'un dolmen à couloir (dit en P)[1]. Il est constitué d'un corridor débouchant sur une chambre plus haute et plus large.
La structure mégalithique est bien conservée et est toujours recouverte par quatre tables de granite. Son style de construction est à rapprocher du Tumulus de Dissignac. Ce dolmen était auparavant recouvert d'un cairn, actuellement disparu et dont les derniers vestiges ont probablement été arasé lors du défrichement de 1874-1876. Un dessin de 1866-1867 montre le dolmen dans la même configuration qu'aujourd'hui[2]. Les fouilles sommaires de l'époque ont montré que ces sépultures avaient été vidées à la fin du Néolithique, au Campaniforme, et pillées à l'époque romaine. (Fouillé par le Capitaine Lukis, le produit de ces fouilles non publiées serait, sous toute réserve, au British Museum, à Londres)
Ce second dolmen, probablement de même nature que le précédent, est très ruiné. Seuls subsistent des éléments de la chambre sépulcrale, sur le bord du chemin, une vingtaine de mètres après Kerbourg 1. Elle a fait l'objet de fouilles sommaires de M. Benoist, notaire à Guérande, puis par H. Quilgars en avril 1897.
A proximité des dolmens de Kerbourg, de l'autre coté de la route reliant Guérande à Saint-Lyphard, se trouve le menhir de la Pierre Blanche (ou menhir de La Madeleine). C'est un bloc de quartz blanc, haut de plus de 2 m. Un second menhir se trouvait à proximité immédiate, mais il a été détruit au début du XXe siècle.
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A dolmen (also known as cromlech (Welsh), anta, Hünengrab, Hunebed, Goindol, quoit, and portal dolmen) is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of three or more upright stones supporting a large flat horizontal capstone (table). Most date from the early Neolithic period (4000 to 3000 BC). Dolmens were usually covered with earth or smaller stones to form a barrow, though in many cases that covering has weathered away, leaving only the stone "skeleton" of the burial mound intact.
"Dolmen" originates from the expression taol maen, which means "stone table" in Breton, and was first used archaeologically by Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne. The etymology of the German Hünenbett or Hünengrab and Dutch Hunebed all evoke the image of giants building the structures. Of other Celtic languages, "cromlech" derives from Welsh and "quoit" is commonly used in Cornwall. Anta is the term used in Portugal, and dös in Sweden.
Megalithic tombs are found from the Baltic Sea and North Sea coasts south to Spain and Portugal. Hunebedden are chamber tombs similar to dolmens and date to the middle Neolithic (Funnelbeaker culture, 4th millennium BC). They consist of a kerb surrounding an oval mound which covered a rectangular chamber of stones with the entrance on one of the long sides. Some have a more complex layout and include an entrance passage giving them a T-shape. It has been suggested that this means they are related to the passage graves found in Denmark and elsewhere.
Dolmen sites fringe the Irish Sea and are found in south-east Ireland, Wales, Devon and Cornwall. In Ireland, however, dolmens are more to be found on the west coast, particularly in the Burren and Connemara, where some of the more well-known examples, such as Poulnabrone dolmen, are to be found. Examples have also been found in northern Ireland where they may have co-existed with the court cairn tombs. It is thought that the dolmens themselves evolved from a simpler cist burial method.
A great many examples can also be found on the Channel Island of Jersey, such as La Pouquelaye de Faldouet, La Hougue des Géonnais and La Sergenté. The most famous of these sites is La Hougue Bie a 6,000 year old neolithic site that sits inside a large mound; later a chapel was built on the top of the mound.
Amongst the vast Neolithic collections of the Carnac stones in Brittany, France, several dozen dolmens are found. And all around the country, several dolmens still stand, such as the ones of Passebonneau and des Gorces near Saint-Benoît-du-Sault.
Various menhirs and dolmens are located around the Mediterranean islands of Malta and Gozo. Pottery uncovered in these structures allowed the attribution of the monuments to the Tarxien cemetery culture of the Early Bronze Age.[1] This later culture is not to be confused with the Neolithic inhabitants of Malta, who built the Tarxien Temples circa 3100 BC.
In France, important megalithic zones are situated in Brittany, Vendée, Quercy and in the south of France (Languedoc, Rouergue and Corsica). More than 10,000 dolmens and menhirs cover a large part of the country (west and south). Importants menhirs alignments in Brittany (Carnac's alignments count more than 1,000 menhirs)
In Spain dolmens can be found in Galicia (such as Axeitos, pictured below), Catalonia (like Romanyà de la Selva or Creu d'en Cobertella) and Andalusia (like the Cueva de Menga).
Dolmens can be found all over Portugal, from simple ones [1] to the more complex examples of megalithic architecture, such as the Almendres Cromlech or the Anta Grande do Zambujeiro.
In Mecklenburg and Pomerania (Germany) and Drenthe (The Netherlands), large numbers of these graves were disturbed when harbours, towns, and cities were built. The boulders were used in construction and road building. There are still many thousands left today in Europe.
In Italy some dolmens can be found in the south (Puglia) and in Sardinia.
In Bulgaria there are many dolmens, and more are being recorded by archaeologists.
The largest dolmen in Europe is the Brownshill Dolmen in County Carlow, Ireland. Its capstone weighs about 150 tonnes
Les dolmens de Kerbourg ou aussi "dolmens de l'ile de la Motte", sont des allées couvertes situées sur la commune de Saint-Lyphard, à proximité du Village de La Madeleine (commune de Guérande), dans le département de la Loire-Atlantique, en France.
Les dolmens de Kerbourg sont situés au sud-ouest du hameau de Kerbourg, près de La Madeleine, à peu près à mi-distance entre Saint-Lyphard et Guérande, sur le bord d'un champ et est accessible grâce à un chemin, à coté des moulins.
Lors du défrichement des landes en 1874-1876 au sommet de la colline de Kerbourg, près des moulins à vent, deux dolmens ont été dégagés. Le ou les (?) cairns ont alors été arasés ne laissant que la partie mégalithique en place.
L'aspect de ces sépultures devait être celui du cairn de Gavrinis, ou celui du tumulus de Dissignac à Saint-Nazaire.
Les dolmens de Kerbourg sont classés à l'inventaire des monuments historiques depuis 1951.
Datant du néolithique ancien ou moyen (vers 4500 / 4000 avant JC), d'une longueur de 7 mètres et d'une largeur de 3, souvent qualifié d'allée couverte, il s'agit en réalité d'un dolmen à couloir (dit en P)[1]. Il est constitué d'un corridor débouchant sur une chambre plus haute et plus large.
La structure mégalithique est bien conservée et est toujours recouverte par quatre tables de granite. Son style de construction est à rapprocher du Tumulus de Dissignac. Ce dolmen était auparavant recouvert d'un cairn, actuellement disparu et dont les derniers vestiges ont probablement été arasé lors du défrichement de 1874-1876. Un dessin de 1866-1867 montre le dolmen dans la même configuration qu'aujourd'hui[2]. Les fouilles sommaires de l'époque ont montré que ces sépultures avaient été vidées à la fin du Néolithique, au Campaniforme, et pillées à l'époque romaine. (Fouillé par le Capitaine Lukis, le produit de ces fouilles non publiées serait, sous toute réserve, au British Museum, à Londres)
Ce second dolmen, probablement de même nature que le précédent, est très ruiné. Seuls subsistent des éléments de la chambre sépulcrale, sur le bord du chemin, une vingtaine de mètres après Kerbourg 1. Elle a fait l'objet de fouilles sommaires de M. Benoist, notaire à Guérande, puis par H. Quilgars en avril 1897.
A proximité des dolmens de Kerbourg, de l'autre coté de la route reliant Guérande à Saint-Lyphard, se trouve le menhir de la Pierre Blanche (ou menhir de La Madeleine). C'est un bloc de quartz blanc, haut de plus de 2 m. Un second menhir se trouvait à proximité immédiate, mais il a été détruit au début du XXe siècle.
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