Editing Tumulus (section)

=====Netherlands=====
[[File:Oss vorstengraf.jpg|thumb|[[Vorstengraf (Oss)|Vorstengraf]] near Oss (Netherlands) from above]] Burial mounds are the most numerous archaeological monuments in the Netherlands. In many places, these prehistoric graves are still clearly visible as low hills. The oldest tumuli (''grafheuvels'') in the Netherlands were built near [[Apeldoorn]] about 5,000 years ago. Concentrations of tumuli from the [[Bronze Age]] are located on the [[Veluwe]] and [[Drenthe]].

Early scholarly investigation of tumuli and [[dolmen|hunebedden]] and theorising as to their origins was undertaken from the 17th century by notably [[Johan Picardt]]. Although many have disappeared over the centuries, some 3000 tumuli are known of which 636 are protected as [[Rijksmonument]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.grafheuvels.nl/vitruvius4_2008.php |title=Grafheuvelonderzoek in Nederland: een gedane zaak? |trans-title=Burial mound research in the Netherlands: a done deal? |last=Bourgeois |first=Quentin |website=grafheuvels.nl |publisher=[[Universiteit Leiden]] |date=2008 |access-date=3 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221013113/http://www.grafheuvels.nl/vitruvius4_2008.php |archive-date=21 February 2014 |language=nl}}</ref> The largest tumulus in the Netherlands is the [[Vorstengraf (Oss)|grave of a king]] near Oss. [[Rijksmuseum van Oudheden]], [[Drents Museum]], and [[Huis van Hilde]] have findings from tumuli in their collections.