🇳🇱 Netherlands · Archaeological wonder
Huis Honselaarsdijk
Huis Honselaarsdijk is a former palace and country residence of the Dutch Stadtholders and princes of Orange which lies about 2.6 km (2 mi) southwest of the border of The Hague, Netherlands.
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🇳🇱 Netherlands · Archaeological wonder
Huis Honselaarsdijk is a former palace and country residence of the Dutch Stadtholders and princes of Orange which lies about 2.6 km (2 mi) southwest of the border of The Hague, Netherlands.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Archaeological wonder
The Armenhoef is a monumental farm on the Oirschotseweg 117 in the North Brabantian town Best in the Netherlands. The Armenhoef is the oldest, still in use farm of North Western Europe.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Hydraulic works
Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands, has more than 100 kilometers (62 mi) of grachten (canals), about 90 islands and 1,500 bridges.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Tumulus
Eersel (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈeːrsəl] ) is a municipality and a town in southern Netherlands in the province of North Brabant. Eersel is situated in the Campine (Kempen) area.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Hydraulic works
The Ghent–Terneuzen Canal (Dutch: Kanaal van Gent naar Terneuzen), also known as the "Sea Canal" (Zeekanaal) is a canal linking Ghent in Belgium to the port of Terneuzen on the Westerschelde…
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Archaeological wonder
Huis ter Nieuwburg or Huis ter Nieuburch ("House at New Borough") was a palace in Rijswijk, Holland, Dutch Republic.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Archaeological wonder
Aartswoud (West Frisian: Ierswoud) is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland, part of the municipality of Opmeer. It lies about twelve kilometres (7.5 mi) northeast of Heerhugowaard.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Ancient city
Brittenburg was a Roman ruin site west of Leiden between Katwijk aan Zee and Noordwijk aan Zee, presumably identical to the even older Celtic Lugdunum fortress.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Funnel Beaker West Group (TRB)
TRB West Group hunebed D13 at Eext (c. 3350 BCE), 18 m enclosure with 4 capstones on heath, one of 53 Drenthe hunebeds.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Buried city
Medieval (1200–1632 CE) · Dutch / Flemish / Zeelandic
Zeeland third city 1374 — 84 m church and brick quays at −3 m in Oosterschelde, drowned 1530–1632 after St Felix flood.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Funnel Beaker Culture West Group (TRB)
Netherlands' largest hunebed — 22.6 m passage grave with 9 capstones of Scandinavian erratics, c.3400 BCE.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Buried city
Medieval (1230–1584 CE) · Flemish / Dutch / Zeelandic
Scheldt viscountcy drowned 1404–1584 — 55 km² peat polder with 4 villages now Europe largest salt marsh at +0.5 m.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Ancient village
Middle to Late Neolithic · Hazendonk Group / Vlaardingen
Neolithic river dune (donk) settlement Hazendonk (c. 4000–2000 BCE) on Rhine-Meuse levee, type-site for Hazendonk Group pottery.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Funnel Beaker West Group
Large TRB hunebed D17 at Rolde (c. 3400 BCE), 17 m chamber with 8 capstones, one of the intact Drenthe passage graves near Rolde church. Excavated and restored showing pottery and flint assemblage.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Funnel Beaker West Group
TRB hunebed D49 at Ellertshaar (c. 3350 BCE) on Drenthe plateau, 10 m chamber with 4 capstones in heathland. Excavated by van Giffen showing funnel beakers and erratic granite provenance.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Archaeological wonder
Mesolithic (Maglemosian/Boreal) · Northern European Early Mesolithic forest foragers (Maglemose)
8040 BCE Scots pine dugout—world's oldest preserved boat, fire-hollowed Mesolithic canoe.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Ancient village
Middle Neolithic (Swifterbant) · Swifterbant
Swifterbant culture river dune settlement S3 (c. 4300–4000 BCE) on buried levee in former Flevoland wetland, with pottery, antler, bone and early cereal evidence.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Earthwork
Neolithic Funnel Beaker 3300 BCE to Bronze Age · Funnel Beaker (TRB) culture
3300 BCE Neolithic heavy-haul bog road (800 m, 2.8 m wide) at Tin Tab, Drenthe, aligned to Emmen hunebed for megalithic sledge transport.