A Barrow Mound

Back in 2011 a farmer in Switzerland notified local authorities that he may have found something of importance. For several years he had been working around a boulder that lay in the midst of his field, almost wholly covered. After attempting to move it he discovered it was rather large and seemed connected to other boulders.

Authorities began poking about and found that it was a dolmen, a site where neolithic man built chambers from stacking very large boulders. This one, the roof of the dolmen, was  about 7 tones. Within they found a communal burial chamber with over 20 bodies. Interestingly their were also signs from the Roman and medieval periods, indicating that the dolmen stood upright for centuries...17 centuries to be precise, until the river eventually caused it to slide over into a heap and become largely buried in sediment.

This old stone...if only he could talk...has watched men from stone to iron to steel trundle on by.

Read the full article at Past Horizons, picture from their site.