Doggerland

Perhaps you've heard about Doggerland...

Thanks to some beach finds we got really interested.

In January we started the hunt and visited Monster.

It was windy, rainy and very cold but we found lots of fossil bits and pieces...

In May I found an artefact at Maasvlakte 2, our first visit to this area...

I knew it was something special, a so called "spits".

Measuring 6 cm probably a bow and arrow tip.

The idea someone held this piece way back... was mind-blowing.

The expert opinion : a harpoon tip approximately 10.000 years old.

If it had been up to me, we would have started visiting every weekend (smile)

In August, our second visit, the kenderman found this tooth on the same beach.

Due to the expert is a molar from a red or giant deer...

We were both eager to visit the Doggerland exhibition at RMO in Leiden.

a reconstruction of neanderthaler Krijn

I must admit I'm really obsessed by "spitsen" or "tips" now (big smile).

We dis see some other objects in the museum but we'll go back...

Magic from the bronze age... two swords from Ommerschans and Jutphaas.

Dating 1350-1500 BC

Two giant blades, too heavy, no handle, not even sharpened.

No functional weapons, only objects of beauty?