Around the Havelterberg
Westerveld, Drenthe, The Netherlands
Cycling route: 178558
Provided by: Groots Genieten
30.2 km
01:46 h
532 kcal
21 m
Description
The medieval collective of larger farmers created a beautiful landscape around the Havelterberg, near Uffelte. High-altitude fields were separated by gigantic forests, large peat bogs, vast moors and beautiful drifting sands. The Uffelterzand is a smaller area covered by forests and heathland. If you pay close attention, you can see some burial mounds in this area. Larger is the Westerzand, which is formed by an estate where forest, heathland and peat merge into one another. Part of this estate is privately owned, another part is accessible to the public.
In the Westerzand, on top of the Havelterberg, which forms a complex of moraines, glacial ridges and basins, you have a beautiful view of hunebed D53 and hunebed D53. Both were built during the Funnelbeaker culture. Fourteen side stones bear the capstones of number 54, of which there are six in all. The easternmost capstone is missing, along with the keystone. Hunebed D53 is even larger and has 21 supporting stones, two keystones and nine capstones. The gate is also complete and consists of four supporting stones and a capstone. In 1918 this hunebed was scientifically investigated and during the excavation the shards of 665 pots were found. In addition, the research showed that the hunebed once had sixteen whorl stones instead of the current ten.
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Directions
| # | Description | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|
7 | 7 (7971CA, Westerveld, Drenthe, The Netherlands) | 0.00 km | |
11 | 11 (7971, Westerveld, Drenthe, The Netherlands) | 1.18 km | |
1 | 1 (7973JC, Westerveld, Drenthe, The Netherlands) | 3.03 km | |
10 | 10 (7973JE, Westerveld, Drenthe, The Netherlands) | 4.08 km | |
| Hunebed D53 (Hunebed D54 Havelterberg, 7973JC, Westerveld, Drenthe, The Netherlands) | 5.33 km | ||
| Hunebed D54 (Hunebed D54 Havelterberg, 7973 JC, Westerveld, Drenthe, The Netherlands) | 6.25 km |
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