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Several burial mounds

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Several burial mounds

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Location: Westerveld, Drenthe, Netherlands

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Wandeldingen 🌿

August 18, 2024

There are several burial mounds at the Smitsveen. They are easy to spot because they are real hills in the field. This is what the National Park website says about it:

The dolmen builders were farmers who grew grain and kept cattle. These human activities created open areas time and again. The traces of earlier inhabitants of the Dwingelderveld continue via a different form of pottery and via other forms of burial. Burial mounds were constructed, which we can still see today. In burial mounds, the cremated remains of the dead were sometimes placed in urns. The Late Neolithic burial mound tradition was simply continued in the Bronze Age (2000 - 750 BC). In 1977, the two burial mounds at the Smitsveen were investigated and restored. During the war, damage had been caused by military digging. These sand hills are built from heather sods. They have also been restored in this way. They are family burial mounds from the Middle Bronze Age, in which several people have been buried. (source: nationaalpark-dwingelderveld.nl/uniek/nationaal-park/bewogen/)

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Henry

October 28, 2024

On a weekday at the end of the afternoon, take a lovely, quiet walk across the heath, through the woods and past the sheepfold.

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Location: Westerveld, Drenthe, Netherlands

Several burial mounds

1. View of Dwingelderveld – Smitsveen loop from Lhee

2. Smitsveen – View of Dwingelderveld loop from Lhee

3. Dwingeloo Radio Telescope – Smitsveen loop from Lhee

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