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Archaeological site · Vaals · Updated on 1 November 2026.

Archaeological site in Vaals

This is an archaeological site in Vaals, Limburg, Netherlands. This place has a story in the app. Within 10 m you'll find a bench.

Archaeological site in Vaals
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The story

Story · Archaeological site

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You're standing among the burial mounds of the Vijlenerbos, a forest between Vijlen and Vaals in the far south of Limburg. Walk out of the woods and you're soon in Raren. Look around at the low, round humps between the trees. They aren't ordinary bumps in the ground. They're graves from the Bronze Age, probably three to five thousand years old.

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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons. In the app you add your own photo when you are there.

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