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Submitted by shunt on Friday, 28 July 2006  Page Views: 6776

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Grafheuvels Klein Ravels Alternative Name: Het Heike
Country: Belgium
NOTE: This site is 9.956 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Ravels
Latitude: 51.381890N  Longitude: 4.984000E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Grafheuvels Klein Ravels
Grafheuvels Klein Ravels submitted by shunt : These mounds also come in different sizes (Vote or comment on this photo)
Barrow Cemetery in Belgium. This site dates from 700-250 BC and contains 12 mounds of which 3 are encircled by poles.

See more information about this site in the comments below where a translation of the Dutch language entry in Wikipedia is posted.
This site is hidden in the woods of Ravels, a village in the province Antwerpen.
You can reach it by some forest paths and then follow the horseriding paths. There are no sign-posts to guide you to the site, unfortunately!

There are many barrow cemetries around this area, also across the Dutch border.
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Grafheuvels Klein Ravels
Grafheuvels Klein Ravels submitted by DrewParsons : Photo taken by Marlies Lemmens March 2018 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Grafheuvels Klein Ravels
Grafheuvels Klein Ravels submitted by DrewParsons : Photo taken by Marlies Lemmens March 2018. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Grafheuvels Klein Ravels
Grafheuvels Klein Ravels submitted by DrewParsons : Photo taken by Marlies Lemmens March 2018 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Grafheuvels Klein Ravels
Grafheuvels Klein Ravels submitted by DrewParsons : Photo taken by Marlies Lemmens March 2018. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Grafheuvels Klein Ravels
Grafheuvels Klein Ravels submitted by shunt : A small mound in the middle behind the tree, one on the right surrounded by poles and a small one in front (Vote or comment on this photo)

Grafheuvels Klein Ravels
Grafheuvels Klein Ravels submitted by shunt : Behind the birches there's another mound

Grafheuvels Klein Ravels
Grafheuvels Klein Ravels submitted by shunt : Too bad all these mounds are overgrown with grass, weeds and thistles, this one is almost invisible!

Grafheuvels Klein Ravels
Grafheuvels Klein Ravels submitted by shunt : You should see 5 mounds in this picture, two bigger ones surrounded by poles and three small ones.

Grafheuvels Klein Ravels
Grafheuvels Klein Ravels submitted by shunt : We almost missed this one, hidden behind trees and high grass!

Grafheuvels Klein Ravels
Grafheuvels Klein Ravels submitted by shunt : A barrow cemetery in Ravels, Belgium. There should be 12 mounds here, hidden in the woods. Dating from 700-250 BC

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Re: Grafheuvels Klein Ravels by DrewParsons on Friday, 30 March 2018
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A friend who lives nearby these burial mounds sent me photos of them and they are posted now this page now. Here is a translation of the Dutch Language Wikipedia site entry for these mounds:

The Heike grave field is a grave field in which at least 27 graves have been found, located at Klein-Ravels in the Ravels municipality in the Belgian province of Antwerp.

This cemetery was used in the period from the late Bronze Age to the early Iron Age (1100 - 475/450 BC). In accordance with the usual burial rituals in the Kempen, the dead were cremated here, after which the remains were buried in a burial mound or flat grave in an earthenware pot. Rarely, additional information was provided. The urns present were from the Harpstedt pottery, which is typical of the early Iron Age. One also found one smaller bee-jar, an egg-ercher.

The burial mounds had a diameter of five to six meters. Some of the flat graves had an encircled structure in the form of a ring-shaped ditch or a pile wreath. The burial ground with the 27 burial monuments involved 16 burial mounds and 11 flat graves. Of the burial mounds, three were noted without a border structure, 10 with a ring ditch and 3 with a dense wreath of poles. Of the flat graves 5 had a small ring ditch and 6 had no edge structure.

In 1984-1985, archaeological research was carried out by the National Excavation Service, now called the Flemish Institute for Immovable Heritage.

There are now 12 restored burial mounds.
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