Zwarte Mountain (Hoogeloon)
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The Zwarte Berg ( German "Black Mountain" ) by Hoogeloon (also called Kabouterberg or Smousenberg) is a burial mound of the Bronze Age Hilversum culture (around 1500 BC). It is located on the Groenstraat, north of Hoogeloon in Bladel on the border with Belgium in the Dutch province of North Brabant and is one of the largest burial mounds in the Netherlands.
In the 1980s, the burial mound, a Roman burial ground and the fragment of a Roman road were examined.
The burial mound was built from heather plagues by the bearers of the Hilversum culture . It was surrounded by a moat, a wall and a second moat. Changes were made to the hill later. It is surrounded by a horseshoe-shaped pile wreath with the opening to the northeast. In the direction there is a smaller hill with a stake in the middle and surrounded by a ring of small stakes. Such mounds are similar to those of the British Wessex culture and are considered evidence of migration.
The cremated remains of a dead person were found. The deceased received a bronze ax as a burial gift .
- The Zwarte Berg
The Zwarte Berg
The little hill
The ditch
red: burial mounds in the Netherlands
blue: urn fields
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The Gnome King Kyrie lived according to tradition on the Kabouterberg.
The burial mound is a national monument.
literature
- Stephanie Hoffmann : The origin and development of the Middle Bronze Age in the western low mountain range. Bonn 2004, (Bonn, Universität, Dissertation, 2004), online , URN : urn: nbn: de: hbz: 5-03597 .
- Liesbeth Theunissen : Midden-bronstijdsamenlevingen in het zuiden van de Lage Landen. An evaluation of the term "Hilversum-cultuur". Theunissen et al., Leiden 2000, ISBN 90-90-12443-8 (also: Leiden, University, dissertation, 1999).
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Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 18.2 " N , 5 ° 15 ′ 40.3" E