Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)
Grafheuvel #47522
DatedEst. 3000–1000 BCE
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Overview
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Overview
Grafheuvel #47522 is a megalithic mound in Wageningen, Kingdom of the Netherlands. It lies at 51.9854° N, 5.7072° E.
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Where it sits in time
The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.
The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
Article
Grafheuvel #47522
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Round barrows are found across the Low Countries and France. Many were raised in the Late Neolithic and the Bronze Age. The Bell Beaker phenomenon of the late third millennium BCE brought a new burial rite to western Europe: individual burials, often under a tumulus and with weapons, in contrast to the collective, weaponless burials of the earlier Neolithic. The Dutch hunebedden, the megalithic tombs of the north, belong to the earlier tradition and are described in their own article. The regional background, “Low Countries and French barrows”, is given below.
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No scientific date has been published for this site. Monuments of this type in Kingdom of the Netherlands are generally dated 3000 BCE to 1000 BCE; the site itself may fall inside or outside that range.
The oldest Dutch tumuli (grafheuvels) near Apeldoorn were built about 5,000 years ago and concentrations of Bronze Age tumuli lie on the Veluwe.
Setting
37 other recorded monuments lie within 10 km (1 within 1 km, 25 within 5 km), 37 of them of the same type. In Wageningen, Kingdom of the Netherlands, 8 of the 8 recorded monuments are of this type.
The nearest recorded monuments are Grafheuvel #47521 (0.6 km south-east, megalithic mound); Burial mounts at De Dorschkamp (1.3 km south, megalithic mound); Grafheuvel #47520 (1.6 km north-west, megalithic mound); Four tumuli (1.7 km north-west, megalithic mound).
ProtectionSources for this section
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Heritage status: Rijksmonument.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Low Countries and French barrows
Round barrows are found across the Low Countries and France. Many were raised in the Late Neolithic and the Bronze Age. The Bell Beaker phenomenon of the late third millennium BCE brought a new burial rite to western Europe: individual burials, often under a tumulus and with weapons, in contrast to the collective, weaponless burials of the earlier Neolithic. The Dutch hunebedden, the megalithic tombs of the north, belong to the earlier tradition and are described in their own article.
Round barrows are hemispherical mounds raised over a central burial, which may be an inhumation or a cremation placed in a vessel. Barrows were often reused: later graves were cut into the mound, sometimes long after the first burial, and many attract satellite burials. In France and Belgium, tumuli of the Hallstatt period belong to the early Iron Age, from about 800 BCE; from phase B of the Hallstatt sequence, tumulus burial becomes common and cremation predominates.
Dating relies on pottery and metalwork, and on radiocarbon dating where a mound has been dug. Many have been ploughed down, so the Atlas map reflects where mounds survived and were recorded as much as where they were built.
When visiting, look for the surrounding ditch or kerb, and for a later disturbance at the centre where a later grave or an old digging has cut the mound.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Tumulus, Wikipedia: Round barrow, Wikipedia: Bell Beaker culture, Wikipedia: Hallstatt culture, Wikipedia: Hunebed · CC BY-SA 4.0
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What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 3000–1000 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for megalithic mounds in Kingdom of the Netherlands; this site has not been dated itself. The oldest Dutch tumuli (grafheuvels) near Apeldoorn were built about 5,000 years ago and concentrations of Bronze Age tumuli lie on the Veluwe.Source for this date
Where it stands
Kingdom of the Netherlands
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 51°59′07″ N, 5°42′26″ EFor a GPS or map app: 51.98540, 5.70717
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
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Sources
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Around this place
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Text, licence and sources
Compiled from open records (Wikidata, CC0; OpenStreetMap, ODbL) and a regional background article based on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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