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Submitted by XIII on Friday, 07 August 2015  Page Views: 1944

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:
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
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 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
5

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Ural visited on 10th Feb 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4

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Grafheuvels Spainkbos (45181)
Grafheuvels Spainkbos (45181) submitted by Creative Commons : One of the mounds in the Spainkbos Apeldoorn. Site in Gelderland Netherlands Creative Commons image by the Apeldoorn municipality (Vote or comment on this photo)
There are 4 round barrows at this site, which is protected by a fence to protect it from BMX bikers. There is also an information sign.

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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Grafheuvels Spainkbos (45181)
Grafheuvels Spainkbos (45181) submitted by Ural : Site in Gelderland Netherlands (Vote or comment on this photo)

Grafheuvels Spainkbos (45181)
Grafheuvels Spainkbos (45181) submitted by Ural (Vote or comment on this photo)

Grafheuvels Spainkbos (45181)
Grafheuvels Spainkbos (45181) submitted by Ural (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Death Revisited - The excavation of three Bronze Age barrows by Andy B on Monday, 25 November 2019
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Death Revisited - The excavation of three Bronze Age barrows and surrounding landscape at Apeldoorn-Wieselseweg
Arjan Louwen & David Fontijn | 2019

This book presents a group of small and inconspicuous barrows that were recently discovered in the forest of Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.
Site location approx here
https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=52265

They are part of an extensive barrow landscape of which little was yet known. Fieldwork carried out in and around them yielded a wealth of new data. It was discovered that even the most inconspicuous and heavily damaged mound of this group still contained many special features.

This special place was anchored around a site that probably had a particular significance in the Late Neolithic, and where special rituals were carried out during the Bronze Age, resulting in the construction of an enigmatic row of pits – rituals the likes of which have not previously been attested around barrows in the Netherlands, but which are known elsewhere in Europe. The dead were buried at locations that were probably only later covered by monuments. During the Bronze Age (between the 18th and 15th centuries BC) the mounds of this small barrow group were used as collective graves for what was probably perceived as one specific ‘community of ancestors’.

The burial practices in the mounds show strong similarities and it is argued that these barrows were each other’s successors, representing the funeral history of people who wished to unite their forebears in death as one unproblematic whole without distinctions. The fieldwork showed that even small-scale, partial excavations of a seemingly minor barrow group can inform us on the significance of the extensive barrow landscapes they are part of – a knowledge that can help us to understand the prehistoric legacy of the Netherlands and to protect it for the future as heritage.

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https://www.sidestone.com/books/death-revisited
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