hunebed D18 - Rolde - The Netherlands - Megalithic Monuments on Waymarking.com

The province of Drenthe houses all but two if the 53 cataloged Dutch dolmen, called "hunebed" in Dutch.
Numbers D17 and D18 are located close together just north of the village of Rolde.
This hunebed has 7 covering stones, 14 side stones, 2 gate stones and 2 gate side stones.
For more information (in Dutch), see (visit link)

Type: Dolmen Parking: N 52° 59.310 E 006° 38.744 Number: 25.00 Size: the dolmen is about 15 m long and 5 m wide. Source: the rocks of the Dutch dolmen are thought to have been moved here during the Ice Age, when the land ice stretched to the middle of the country as we now know it. Purpose: Even though "hunebedden" are often thought to be burial grounds, there is ample evidence that corpses were burnt instead of buried. Some of the "hunebedden" do contain artifacts thought to be to help deceased people on their last voyage.

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