Burial mound De Halm

The oldest burial mound of the Utrechtse Heuvelrug is from 2850 BC and is located at De Halm (originally bosven), southeast of Maarn. Under the hill from the New Stone Age, archaeologists have discovered a burial pit, in which a cup and a flint axe have been found. A knife and a hatchet were also found in this funerary monument. The nature of the finds suggests that a prominent man is buried under the burial mound. Perhaps the hatchet is a reference to his role in society, but it may also have been part of religion and served as a gift to a warlike deity. This hill seems to have been raised again at least twice. It is likely that other persons were buried in the hill on these occasions. Based on research, the later hill adaptations are dated to the Bronze Age, between about 1100 and 800 BC, so about two thousand years after the digging of the first tomb.

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