The big boulders of which the hunebedden are made of have been transported to Holland by slow moving ice-glaciers. About 200,000 years ago, during an ice-period, Holland and most of northern Europe was covered by a thick layer of ice. Where did they come from.? The answer is: from Scandinavia. In Drenthe there are no mountains or rocks. It's a province of outstanding beauty with sanddunes, woods, moors, heather, picturesque villages, 200 years old farmhouses with thatched roofs.
So Drenthe, in the northern part of the country, is the hunebedden-province. But not built by Hunen (or huynen = giants) and not beds but graves as we know now. "Hunebedden" as they are called in Holland. 52 in the province of Drenthe and 2 in the adjacent province of Groningen. Older than the Egyptian pyramids! Built of huge granite stones, some of them weighing over 25,000 kilograms, dragged to the spot and piled up to form a rectangular stonegrave. But they exist.!,and they are there for over 5000 years. But who knows of even older and more numerous megalithes in Holland.? Even most of the Dutch themselves are unaware of the richness of the prehistoric monuments in their own country. Mysterious Megalithes in Drenthe, NetherlandsĮveryone has heard of Stonehenge in England and dolmens and menhirs in France. One of the many 'hunebedden' found in the north of the Netherlands One scholar thinks that the carvings on the pottery have to do with the rank or position of the ones buried in that grave. The pottery found in the dolmens (and gave the people their name) is covered with carvings, but no one has yet found out what it means, if it means anything at all. A small group of people were capable of lifting great stones with simple levers and build a dolmen. Recently Dutch scolars found out that dolmens are not necessarily built by great numbers of people, they concluded this after a few of building experiments. They probably did not even realize they were desecrating graves. There must have been many more dolmens in the Netherlands but our ancestors were practical people: they simply used the big stones from the dolmens to build dikes, churches and other buildings. There also is the Dutch Dolmens Information Centre (Nederlands Hunebedden Informatiecentrum - NHI), worth to visit. The largest of the Dutch Dolmens is "D27" in Borger. Nowadays only 54 of them survive, most of them in the province of Drenthe. During this period they build great buildings, not as great as Stonehenge or Skara Brae, but still great buildings: seemingly countless numbers of dolmens are shattered across the land. Meijer - Dolmens in the Netherlandsĭuring the Neolthic period (roughly between 53 BCE) there lived a group of people in the North of the Netherlands known as the Funnel Beaker People, named after their claywork.
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