Tumulus of Glimes

The Tumulus of Glimes is a large, well-preserved burial mound in Glimes, a locality in Incourt in Belgium’s Walloon Brabant province. It stands beside the rue de la Tombe Romaine and is about 15 metres high and more than 50 metres across. A solitary lime tree grows on its summit.

The mound was raised on levelled ground near a Roman road. Its builders formed two concentric stone circles as a foundation. The outer ring had a diameter of about 50 metres and was probably faced with stone, although only the rough structure of its tuff blocks survives. Material found between the construction layers suggests that the mound was built around 120–140 CE.

In 1926, Baron de Loë and Edmond Rahir investigated the mound through an underground tunnel. They found a stone burial chamber two metres below the surrounding ground level. It had been reached by a vertical shaft and had already been emptied. The chamber was built from large Carboniferous limestone slabs, with regular stones measuring 1.40 metres wide and 0.60 metres high.

Further excavations were carried out with a crane around 1999, followed by new archaeological research in 2002. The mound and its surroundings were protected as a landscape in 1971.

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