The visitor’s center also has several computers allowing you to see pictures of all the Dolmen. Many of them sit next to roads and buildings, making them easily accessible. We picked up a map at the visitor’s center ( €1 ) that shows all the locations of the known Dolmen in the Netherlands. Tip: “D” stands for Drenthe, the provincein which all but one of the Dolmen reside. It also has cromlechs, or circles of standing stones and barrows, or tombs. However, there is a marked path of 14 km that starts at D27 and takes you to the D21, D22 cluster and on to D23, D24 & D25. As the largest collection of stone structures in North America, it includes dolmens, or horizontal stone slabs on vertical stone uprights. The temperature had fallen and a storm was moving in so we packed up into the car to continue our drive to the Star Fort. Inside the central museum is a reconstruction so you can understand what the Dolmen looked like before the earth was washed away from their sides. We had the entire place to ourselves for a few minutes before a tour group rolled in.Įvery angle of the Dolmen looks different. The term dolmenhas been applied to propped boulders found in N. The kids ran through the paths inspecting all these boulders, brought to the Netherlands by the last ice age and collected by the people for this rock garden.įinally, back on the hunt for Dolmen we ventured behind the main museum building where the largest of the Netherlands Dolmens, D27 sits. dolmen is a European megalithic tomb, constructed with a flat, table-like capstone resting on uprights and then buried within a cairn of smaller stones or covered with earth. The boulder garden, just across from the prehistoric park was another nice distraction from our Dolmen hunt. (We skipped walking through the water as I did not have a towel to dry everyone’s feet off and it was a bit nippy!) The kids’ favorite was the barefoot path, where they took off their shoes and walked on a variety of surfaces. We started instead with the outside “prehistoric park.” This outdoor part of the museum features both a Stone Age and Bronze Age farm that kids are welcome to play in. There is a film inside that is subtitled in Dutch, we skipped it due to the kids’ lack of interest. The museum is part of the museumkaart program and a great place for kids. For another picture worthy dolmen, check out the Crucuno dolmen. Still topped with its original cairn, this marks a large room which hosted a variety of artefacts, including jewellery, pottery, stunning nephrite gem beads, both human and animal teeth, as well as weapons like axes and arrowheads. We started our hunt at the Hunebedcentrum Museum. The Kercado dolmen is a large and rare site. Here in the Netherlands they dot the northeastern landscape. Over time the earth has worn away leaving just the rock formation. Large boulders like this are scattered throughout the Burren and they were deposited here as the last ice sheets melted. Dolmen are monolithic tombs, typically made from large megaliths supporting a capstone that was covered with dirt to make a chamber. The large boulder that lies beside the path to the dolmen is an example of a glacial erratic.
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