Rolde

Antonius Schonhovius Batavius, canon of Bruges, wrote of these hunebeden in 1537 as the remains of what the Roman senator and historian Tacitus had dubbed The Pillars of Hercules of Vico Roelden (village of Rolde). A map of 1642 showed the hunebedden as ‘Reuzenstien’ (giant stones) and a source published in 1688 called them ‘Steenbergh’. An excavation of D17 in 1706 recovered a ‘blue pot’ decorated with glittering gold stripes.