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D7 Schipborg

Type: Gallery grave
Size: 8.8 x 3.1 m
Town: Schipborg
Location: Kniphorstbos

Latitude N: 53.061177
Longitude E: 6.684534
Orientation: 97° (90° = E-W)

Folk-name: Holbergien

First reported 1811-1815 N. Westendorp Over de Hunebedden in Letter- en Oudheidkundige Verhandelingen

D7 sits on a rise at the edge of the bush bordering the heath between Annen and Schipborg. There are numerous grafheuvels (burial mounds) in the immediate area, as well as remains of settlements. It is along an ancient system of trackways. Its folk-name, Holbergien, refers to the hollow it occupies in the rise of land.