Tumuli of Libersart

The Tumuli of Libersart, locally known as Les Tombes, are two Gallo-Roman burial mounds beside Rue des Tumuli northeast of Libersart, in the municipality of Walhain, Belgium’s province of Waals-Brabant. They stand on opposite sides of the road near the hamlet of Libersart in Tourinnes-Saint-Lambert.

The western mound is concealed in a small wood and rises about 4,5 meters. The eastern mound reaches a height of 6,2 meters. The western mound contains the remains of a wooden stake at its center. No other finds were made, probably because the mounds had been plundered over time.

The Société Archéologique de Bruxelles excavated the two mounds in 1920 and 1911. They bear witness to the presence of a vicus at Tourinnes-Saint-Lambert in the 2e and 3e eeuw n.Chr. The wider dating given for the site is 4000 BCE to 2000 BCE, based on a typological estimate.

Round barrows are found across the Low Countries and France. Many were raised in the Late Neolithic and the Bronze Age. Later, Hallstatt-period tumuli in France and Belgium belong to the early Iron Age, from about 800 BCE. Barrows could be reused, with later graves cut into the mound and sometimes satellite burials added nearby.

Tumuli of Libersart is a megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones) in Walhain, Belgium. A typological estimate: 4000 BCE to 2000 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the Dutch article "Tumuli van Libersart", shown in the original language.