D9 Noordlo

Noordlo is the name of a former hamlet that is now part of Annen. D9 has been named both D9 Noordlo and D9 Annen in various works.

Also known as:
D9 Annen
Latitude:
53° 3' 41.18 N
Longitude:
6° 42' 56.6 E
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Image of D9 Noordlo (Hunebed) by LesHamilton

A sunny evening photograph of Hunebed D9 in its suburban setting.

Image credit: Les Hamilton
LesHamilton
LesHamilton Apr 27, 2014
Image of D9 Noordlo (Hunebed) by LesHamilton

This sunny evening view of Hunebed D9 clearly shows the concrete markers that indicate where the robbed stones of this monument used to stand.

Image credit: Les Hamilton
LesHamilton
LesHamilton Apr 27, 2014
Image of D9 Noordlo (Hunebed) by LesHamilton

This image shows hunebed D9 Annen with some of the plaques showing the positions of the missing stones.

Image credit: Les Hamilton
LesHamilton
LesHamilton Jun 1, 2013
Image of D9 Noordlo (Hunebed) by LesHamilton

Hunebed D9 Annen in its urban setting in the village of Annen.

Image credit: Les Hamilton
LesHamilton
LesHamilton Jun 1, 2013

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D9 Noordlo

Nucleus
Nucleus Jul 19, 2018

Easy to visit (although parking is a bit tricky), as it is located directly in the street Zuidlaarderweg just before the roundabout in Annen (if you drive north).

Unfortunately, the grave is only half preserved, there are still two pairs of upright stones with their capstones along with the endstone. Markers show the position of the missing stones.

Visited July 2018

D9 Noordlo

LesHamilton
LesHamilton Jun 1, 2013

Visited September 5, 2012

Hunebed D9 Annen is actually only half a hunebed. Even when first recorded as long ago as the early 1700s, this passage grave had already lost its western half to stone robbers. Only the eastern section consisting of two pairs of sidestones with their capstones remains.

Unusually, this hunebed stands in a built-up area, on Zuidlaarderweg in the northeast of Annen. Bus line 51 from Assen to Groningen passes through Annen and stops just across the road from this hunebed: the name of the bus stop is, helpfully, Hunebed. If you are traveling with this bus, just keep checking the video display until the bus reaches this stop.

The hunebed was excavated in 1952 when over a hundred pieces of pottery dating from the Funnel Beaker Culture of five thousand years ago were unearthed. When this investigation was completed, concrete markers were placed flush with the ground to indicate the positions of the missing stones.

Reference: Dolmens in the Netherlands by Hans Meijer.

D9 Noordlo

Jane
Jane Jul 29, 2007

Ooh! In TME, Julian says he couldn’t find this one, but we found it with ease. I always smile when I visit monuments in urban settings and this one didn’t disappoint. With only two flat capstones balanced on five remaining uprights, it looks very like a mini-allee-couverte or a ‘My Little Hunebed’. Nestling between tidy, small 1950s detached houses, and opposite a bus shelter, someone had used the monument as a convenient bike park. It had a plot of land all to itself and looked very comfortable with its current position.

I think Julian calls this one Annen but it is in the village of Noordlo on the main drag north out of the village.

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