The Bargeroosterveld Santuary

The Bargeroosterveld Santuary

11/02/2015

In the peat bog near the town of Bargeroosterveld in the north-east of the country, the remains were found of a wooden structure. This small construction consisted of four posts resting on foundation planks which were connected at the top by horizontal beams. The pointed ends of the beams look a bit like cow’s horns.

The building was presumably used as a sanctuary. However, it may even have been some sort of sign post on the peat bog causeways. Or – by analogy with finds in Ireland and Wales – a burial place.

The small log path through the fields leads to the sacred place in the peat bog. Long before the Bronze Age in this country, people used log causeways through the peat bogs. The bogs and marshes were mysterious places. Ever since the New Stone Age people had made sacrifices to gods, spirits or ancestors in or near the peat bogs. In the  Bronze Age special objects were left behind in the bogs, such as jewellery, weapons and even people.

 

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