So wtf are these hunebedden that I've been talking about all day? Giant's beds. They rock!
Sorry, autocarrot. They are rocks. Specifically they are neolithic tombs that date from the time of the funnel beaker people. There are loads of them across the north of the Netherlands, into Germany, Denmark and into the Baltic nations. Where did the rocks come from? Scandinavia. Brought to the Netherlands by ice in an ice age 150k years ago.
The fact these rocks came all the way from Scandinavia, transported here by glacier, highlights how the Netherlands is made up of the moraine of glaciers from iceages.
The same ridge of sand and gravel that gives us the Utrechtse heuvelrug and the Veluwe, also gives us the gravel pits that line the A14 in east Anglia. All of it delivered here by ice.
