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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Grafheuvels Spainkbos (45181)Country: Netherlands
NOTE: This site is 1.249 km away from the location you searched for.
Province: Gelderland Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Apeldoorn
Latitude: 52.222341N Longitude: 5.950845E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Uralsdaughter visited on 10th Feb 2018 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 4
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4 Ambience: 4.5 Access: 4
Rijksmonument (national monument) number: 45181
See also Wikipedia (dutch)
Approximate translation via Google (with edits): The oldest known graves in Apeldoorn date from the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. Apeldoorn is one of the Dutch municipalities with most burial mounds, with more than 150 are prehistoric burial mounds known. [See more in our nearby sites list, kindly submitted by member XIII]
The hill probably stems from the early Bronze Age and was raised around 4000 years ago. Archaeologists determined that the hill was badly damaged, probably by grave robbery and use as cross hill. By examining pollen from the hill is known that the landscape in the time of the funeral looked different now. It was an open space overgrown with heather and nearby especially oak trees.
They are probably barrows for important people. Not everyone got a hill; ordinary graves occurred. A burial beneath a mound required a lot of time and attention. The dead person was on the ground or placed in a hole, usually on the side, with knees bent and facing south. Sometimes he or she got objects, and a beautifully decorated cup, perhaps by eating or drinking for the way to the afterlife. About 3100 years ago there was a big change in burial rituals. From that time the dead were cremated, and the cremated remains were buried. Also found in one in the hills in the Spainkbos is a cremation.
Note: Several hundred Dutch round barrows now added to our database, with thanks to XIII. Now there's the challenge to get photos for these sites
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