Grafheuvel Monnikenbosch

Grafheuvel Monnikenbosch is a prehistoric burial mound on the Zandlaan in Soest, between Amersfoort and Soest, in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It stands within the Monnikenbosch nature area and is a national monument.

The mound is a tumulus containing integral stones. Trial excavation showed that it was built in several phases. Its current form preserves the character of a round burial mound, while the archaeological investigation revealed that construction occurred in more than one stage.

Research dates the mound broadly from 3000 BCE to 1000 BCE using a typological estimate. The trial excavation identified the structure as a Bronze Age mound. Round barrows of this general type were raised in the Late Neolithic and the Bronze Age across the Low Countries and France.

Round barrows were hemispherical mounds built over a central burial, which could be an inhumation or a cremation placed in a vessel. Mounds were often reused, with later graves cut into them, and many gained satellite burials. The Late Neolithic and Bronze Age tradition is distinct from the Dutch hunebedden, megalithic tombs found in the north.

Grafheuvel Monnikenbosch is a megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones) in Soest, Kingdom of the Netherlands. A typological estimate: 3000 BCE to 1000 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the Dutch article "Grafheuvel Monnikenbosch", shown in the original language.