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Some 3000 to 3500 years ago a number of barrows were erected in an area now known as the Slabroekse Heide (Uden, N.-Br.). In the following centuries people were regularly buried here, and between circa 800 and 500 BC a small urnfield evolved with several hundred small mounds on the heath. These burial monuments covered the cremated remains of the dead, which were generally buried in urns.
A unique inhumation burial in which a man or woman was interred lying on his or her back in a small chamber carefully constructed from charred oak beams also dates from this period. Here the deceased was dressed in a colorful dress with long sleeves and wore metal rings in her hair. Extraordinary bronze bracelets and anklets adorned the limbs, and pins and toiletries were interred as grave goods.
Several centuries later, during the Roman Age, the cemetery was once again used as a place of burial. Following this, the area went out of use, and the dead buried here were slowly lost to time. In the late Middle Ages a so-called landweer was constructed, running straight through the cemetery and marking the border between the vrije heerlijkheid Ravenstein and the dukedom Brabant. In the 1950s the mounds were removed from the landscape and the area was taken into use as an agricultural field.
But this is not where the story ends – in 2003 Staatsbosbeheer took ownership of the land and following the excavation in 2010 the Slabroekse Heide cemetery was (re)constructed. Today the area is part of the nature reserve the Maashort and accessible for recreational use, and contributes to the primal feeling that this regions wants to evoke.
This book presents the results of three excavation campaigns conducted at this special place. In 1923, Remouchamps of the National Museum of Antiquities explored this area. In 2005 and 2010 the Faculty of Archaeology and Archol bv further researched this cemetery using modern techniques, which allow us to reconstruct the use of the cemetery and the special inhumation funerary ritual in detail, thereby bringing these mounds on the heath back to life.
A unique inhumation burial in which a man or woman was interred lying on his or her back in a small chamber carefully constructed from charred oak beams also dates from this period. Here the deceased was dressed in a colorful dress with long sleeves and wore metal rings in her hair. Extraordinary bronze bracelets and anklets adorned the limbs, and pins and toiletries were interred as grave goods.
Several centuries later, during the Roman Age, the cemetery was once again used as a place of burial. Following this, the area went out of use, and the dead buried here were slowly lost to time. In the late Middle Ages a so-called landweer was constructed, running straight through the cemetery and marking the border between the vrije heerlijkheid Ravenstein and the dukedom Brabant. In the 1950s the mounds were removed from the landscape and the area was taken into use as an agricultural field.
But this is not where the story ends – in 2003 Staatsbosbeheer took ownership of the land and following the excavation in 2010 the Slabroekse Heide cemetery was (re)constructed. Today the area is part of the nature reserve the Maashort and accessible for recreational use, and contributes to the primal feeling that this regions wants to evoke.
This book presents the results of three excavation campaigns conducted at this special place. In 1923, Remouchamps of the National Museum of Antiquities explored this area. In 2005 and 2010 the Faculty of Archaeology and Archol bv further researched this cemetery using modern techniques, which allow us to reconstruct the use of the cemetery and the special inhumation funerary ritual in detail, thereby bringing these mounds on the heath back to life.
Table of Contents
I INLEIDING
1 Het prehistorische grafveld Slabroekse Heide. Onderzoeksgeschiedenis en aanleiding opgraving 2010
Richard Jansen, Ivo van Wijk, Goof van Eijk & Arjan Louwen
2 Vlakdekkend onderzoek van een gedegenereerd grafveld: doel- en vraagstellingen en methodiek opgraving Slabroekse Heide 2010
Arjan Louwen & Richard Jansen
3 Het bewogen landschap van de Maashorst
Richard Jansen & Ivo van Wijk
4 Bewoning van de Maashorst in brons-, ijzer en Romeinse tijd
Richard Jansen
II HET GRAFVELD
5 Het prehistorisch grafveld Slabroekse Heide: resultaten van de opgraving in 2010
Richard Jansen, Arjan Louwen & Cristian van der Linde
6 Buiten de norm? Een ‘rijk’ inhumatiegraf in het vroege ijzertijd urnenveld Slabroekse Heide – opgraving, resultaten en interpretatie
Jansen, Quentin Bourgeois, Sasja van der Vaart-Verschoof & Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart
7 Herinterpretatie van een urnenveld – het vroeg-Romeinse grafveld Slabroekse Heide
Richard Jansen
8 Het grafveld doorgraven: een landweer tussen het Land van Ravenstein en het Hertogdom Brabant
Goof van Eijk & Richard Jansen
III SPECIALISTISCH ONDERZOEK
9 Bijzondere textielvondsten uit het vroege ijzertijd inhumatiegraf uit Uden-Slabroekse Heide: kleding en lijkgewaad?
Sasja van der Vaart-Verschoof, Karina Grömer, Joke Nientker, Richard Jansen, Deandra de Loof & Ineke Joosten
10 Osteologisch onderzoek naar het botmateriaal van een Vroege IJzertijd inhumatie uit het grafveld Slabroekse Heide
Simone A.M Lemmers
11 Het vrijprepareren en conserveren van de vondsten uit het vroege ijzertijd inhumatiegraf uit Uden – Slabroekse Heide
Jo Kempkens
12 Osteologisch onderzoek naar de crematieresten uit het Urnenveld van de Slabroekse Heide
Simone A.M Lemmers
13 Brandstof voor levenden en doden. Houtskoolresten uit kuilen uit het Mesolithicum en een grafveld uit de IJzer- en Romeinse tijd op de Slabroekse Heide (Noord-Brabant)
E.E. van Hees
14 Heuvels op de heide – palynologisch onderzoek Slabroekse Heide
Marieke Doorenbosch, Jan-Willem de Kort & Jan van Mourik
IV OMGEVINGSONDERZOEK
15 Drie grafheuvels aan de Zeelandseweg in Nistelrode – een waardestellend en inventariserend omgevingsonderzoek van een archeologisch monument
Richard Jansen, Cristian van der Linde & Arjan Louwen
16 Het Karlingerven op de Slabroekse Heide: een pollenonderzoek
Corrie Bakels
17 Een archeologische begeleiding van het Palmven op de Schaijkse Heide
Adé Porreij-Lyklema & Marieke Doorenbosch
