Yesterday, I was at dolmen D5. D5 is located near the village of Zeijen in the province of Drenthe, the Netherlands.
D5 was built between 3400 and 3100 BC. and is attributed to the Funnelbeaker culture.
This ‘hunebed’ is characterized by the fact that the base of the cover mound is still quite clearly visible. Originally, a larger part of the hunebed was hidden under the cover mound. However, this was reversed when the hunebed was partially excavated in 1833. Some fragments of urns were found.
#Hunebed / #Dolmen in #Drenthe, with the name #D31. 5-6000 years old collection of #rocks. . (at Drenthe) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd8ovObLNqb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Some pictures of my latest visits to our prehistoric monuments:
Dolmen D6 is located east of the village of Tynaarlo. Soil examination revealed flint stones, axes, arrowheads, potsherds and beads of amber. The name Tynaarlo is kinda puzzling. It might mean ‘at the site of the clearing in the maple forest’. From Old Dutch *are (“maple”) and lo (from *lauhaz, a (sacred) clearing in a forest). Others connect it to the god Donar, Thunaer or Thunar in Old Saxon. In old Low Saxon it becomes Tinoarlo; “Thor's clearing in the forest”. Or perhaps it is connected to the Frisian male name Tie, Tye. From tuw, tij 'god' (WGm. *tīw), counterpart of Old Norse týr, pl. tivar. Which was also in use as the name of the old Germanic main god. The place name then means 'god’s clearing in the forest'.
D7 is located at the Strubben-Kniphorst nature reserve east of the Borgweg near the village of Schipborg. On this hunebed (dolmen) a rare moss is found that only grows on these graves in The Netherlands and is hence called ‘hunebedmos’. Very rare here. But in other countries it is called lantern moss and is typically found in cooler climates on surfaces or fissures of dry, siliceous, exposed rock such as granite.
D8 is located between the villages of Annen and Schipborg. It is assumed that this dolmen was located on a prehistoric route, because there is an old cart track near the dolmen.
D9 is an incomplete portal tomb in Annen. The grave monument served as a bicycle rack for travelers by public transport. This is to the great sadness of the Annen historical association: “None of the other 52 dolmens has suffered such a sad fate as the small half-dolmen in Annen. This 5,000-year-old monument, which has now become famous and infamous under the nickname 'prehistoric bicycle rack', is treated with disrespect”. There is now a prohibition sign.
Dolmen D51 is one of the many hunebeds that are scattered throughout the northeastern region of the Netherlands and is estimated to be over 5,000 years old.
Read more at: https://paganplaces.com/places/dolmen-d52/