Index Dutch bronze age
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News about findings and discoveries
What can you expect on this page?
- Everything you always wanted to know about Dutch prehistoric life between 2200 - 800 BC, a.k.a the Dutch bronze age.
- News about findings and discoveries involving the prehistory after 2000 BC until the early Roman period.
| date (ddmmyyyy) | subject (country) | author / source |
| 02101998 | Prehistoric forgery
destroyed (NL)
In the Frisian town of Kûbaard a prehistoric iron forgery has accidentally been destroyed. From the forgery (400 BC) only some pottery shells, fragments and pictures survived. It was the first time that a forgery like this had been found there. |
Leeuwarder Courant |
| 13101998 | Roman and Celtic coins
in Venlo (NL)
Almost 70 coins appeared in a construction pit. They date from 10 BC - 40 AD. According to N. Roymans the finding points us at great military units in Venlo in the early Roman period. |
Dagblad de Limburger |
| 27101998 | Trunk canoe in Woerden
(NL)
A Roman time canoe was found, dating from about the second or third century A.D. On the same spot a wooden bucket and the remainings of a quay were discovered. |
Volkskrant |
| 28111998 | 3000 year old beer
(E)
Archaeologists of the University of Barcelona have made beer after a bronze age recipe, 2000 BC. Therefore remainings on beer-jars were carefully examened. A nearby brewery made 400 bottles according on this recipe. People reacted positive although the dark brew was a bit thick and also meagre. The percentage was 16. |
Arnhemse Courant |
| 28071998 | Also iron age in Venray
(NL)
During excavations pottery shells and pieces of grinding stones were discovered, dating from 200 B.C. until the early Roman age. |
De Trompetter |
| 18091998 | Reconstruction King's
grave Oss? (NL)
The municipality of Oss wants to reconstruct the famous iron age King's grave, the largest one ever found in the Netherlands. Since it was excavated in the 30's it appeared to be unique for Northwest-Europe. |
De Dordtenaar |
March, 16th 1999