Dolmen

Yes.

So this is a Dolman and If you know me, you know I love dolmens.

This is what I originally got suckered into history about.

And this particular dolmen is in France.

Sometimes, not all the time, but They were just burial chambers.

I don't think they were intended to be burial chambers just because they became burial chambers doesn't mean that's what they were for.

Again, the screwdriver and the nail analogy of Dolman's.

I've got hundreds and hundreds in my archive.

[theme music] It's Friday, October 9th, and this is the Dutch News Podcast, your weekly chance to catch up with what's been going on here in the Netherlands.

I'm Paul Peters, civil engineer and accidental Hunebed tourist.

And with me today is, uh, Gordon Terek, contributing editor at Dutch News and porridge correspondent.

Yeah, Gordon, uh, it turns out, uh, we Dutchmen are, uh, good at everything.

Absolutely, yeah.

As, uh, ev- every bit as prestigious in its way.

I mean, it, it, it's, uh, very close to the Hunebed Highway, Rollo.

Uh, it's got, um, uh, one of those, uh, climbing, um, you know, uh, woodland, uh, attraction things where you can climb, climb around, uh, with, uh, with rope ladders and poles.

People, I think, assume that there's some sort of ritualistic aspect or maybe burial aspect to them.

But I've heard other people say that there's other kinds of things that happen in Dolmen, just like there's other things that happen in pyramids.

So there's various different accounts of what they were for.

But they certainly sit like...

But also, it's hard to walk in that kind of heat.

And we had a whole week pretty much of wild camping and sleeping at Dolmens over the equinox.

That was wonderful.

But we definitely needed a clean.

How do you spell it? No, I've never heard about that.

A dolmen?

Yeah, D-O-L-M-E-N.

Look it up.

It looks like a dolmen.

Terms apply.

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Dolman, it's kind of like what Stonehenge is, kind of not.

Right but.

when you stand next to this north salem balanced rock you feel the weight of intention derek you feel uh that it's not simply a boulder dropped by chance that it's a ceremonial node uh an ancient deliberate mechanism that's literally embedded into the very geomagnetic web of our planet And if you really want to understand the true function of this node or Kromlech or Dolmen, you have to look beyond its even staggering weight and even now examine its composition because the ancient builders, right? The Neolithic builders, they went through great lengths to use certain stones.

One of them is granite, right? Red granite is both rich in magnetite, rich in quartz.

You have material that is literally capable of harnessing piezoelectricity and magnetism simultaneously.