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Continental Bell- or Disc-Barrows in Holland with special reference to Tumulus I at Rielsch Hoefke

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 May 2014

A. E. van Giffen
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There are half a dozen barrows, now restored, on the heath called ‘Rechte Heide’ belonging to the municipality of the village of Goirle in the province of North Brabant, Holland, about 5 km. south-west of the town of Tilburg (fig. 1). The barrows stand on the east bank of the brook called ‘Oude Lei’ a little north of the ‘Rielsch Hoefke’ farm. Although their popular name is ‘De Vijfberg’ (The Five Mounds) in reality they number seven; six of these form a curve with the open side looking east, the seventh one lying a little further south. The height of the surrounding heath is about 20 m. above sea-level. It consists of Rhine-Meuse diluvium, belonging to the so-called high terrace, and it is fairly level.

Although more than once disturbed in the past the importance of this group was only perceived by W. J. A. and J. Willems during an excursion in 1935, when they observed that one of them (fig. 1, no. 1) was surrounded by a bank and ditch. The peculiar-form, recognisable at once from the outside (pl. XLIXa), is in my opinion that of a typical bell-barrow which made it at that time unique in Holland and, as far as I know, in the whole of the European Continent.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , December 1938 , pp. 258 - 271
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1938

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page 258 note 2 ‘Rielsche Hoefke’ means a small farm in the village of Riel.

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