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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 10457904, member: 2844&quot;]Similar things have happened here too, for instance this church was built on a foundation of megaliths taken from a nearby Stone Age monument:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]526052[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And most of our old and beautiful manmade mounds in the north of the country were dug out to use the fertile soil for the tulip fields in Holland, in the west. The houses and Medieval churches on the mounds were demolished.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The mounds were once constructed by hand so people could build their houses on higher, dry ground in the marsh and sea areas that used to make up much of the Netherlands. They were the start of Dutch culture, but no one cared in the 19th century. Especially if it was for the benefit of Holland, the dominant part of the country.</p><p>The irony of the story is that the many low lying areas will need constructions like that in future, with rising sea levels. Parts of the north and west of the country are already below sea level.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the historic mounds that still exists, with its Medieval saddle-roof church, this one is in Friesland:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]526053[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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