D18 Rolde

Latitude:
52° 59' 22.29 N
Longitude:
6° 38' 57.03 E
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Image of D18 Rolde (Hunebed) by Nucleus

Panorama view from the north
Visited July 2018

Image credit: Uwe Häberle 07/2018
Nucleus
Nucleus Jul 21, 2018
Image of D18 Rolde (Hunebed) by Nucleus

Panorama view from the south
Visited July 2018

Image credit: Uwe Häberle 07/2018
Nucleus
Nucleus Jul 21, 2018
Image of D18 Rolde (Hunebed) by LesHamilton

Hunebed D18 at Rolde, showing the tops of two portal stones, now largely buried in the sand.

Image credit: Les Hamilton
LesHamilton
LesHamilton Oct 13, 2013
Image of D18 Rolde (Hunebed) by Billy Fear

Looking N.
D17 can be seen in the background (left).
25/02/2008

Image credit: Billy Fear
Billy Fear
Billy Fear Feb 18, 2009

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D18 Rolde

Nucleus
Nucleus Jul 21, 2018

As I walked from D17 to D18, the whitish color of the stones and the large capstones, bent like a spine, reminded me of the skeleton of a dinosaur as seen in museums :-).

Visited July 2018

D18 Rolde

LesHamilton
LesHamilton Oct 13, 2013

Visited May 8, 2011

Hunebed D18 Rolde lies 200 metres south of D17, behind the cemetery adjacent to Sint-Jacobskerk in Rolde.

Much better preserved than its twin, D18 originally had seven capstones supported by 14 sidestones, as well as a pair of entrance stones—these last largely buried in the sand so that only their tops are showing. D18 is a particularly neat and tidy hunebed, almost complete, hardly surprising since it has experienced restoration on numerous occasions. Two of the capstones are actually now held in place by steel pins.

An archetypical hunebed, enhanced by the oak tree that arched gracefully over it until 1984, D18 has been illustrated in drawings and paintings many times over the years. But, because it was disturbing the hunebed and threatening its cohesion, this tree had to be removed.

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