Havelte Dolmen

This is the D53, written with a D for Drenthe. Because this province was by far the most important playground for the giants who, legend has it, constructed these stone formations. Later we went on to call them dolmens and carefully numbered each one. Now we know that these were megalithic tombs, built some five thousand years ago by people belonging to the Funnel Beaker Culture. Not that they knew that themselves. Today children play on the stones of this eighteen metre long dolmen near Havelte. Do they realize they’re dancing on someone’s grave? Maybe they’ll find the shard of a funnel beaker and ask themselves what it means to be a child of the plastic beaker culture.