Together we stand strong

Building a dolmen meant toiling for weeks on end. Young and old, even animals were involved and gave it all they’ve got. First a large heap of sand was built. While some were doing that, others went looking for stones in the area. Or, actually, for gigantic boulders. Don’t ask how long it took exactly, but just imagine what a job it must have been to drag those heavy bastards  
to the sand heap. 

The system worked well: the boulders were slowly moved to their destination on rollers made of tree trunks, which nevertheless took an awful lot of pushing and pulling! First the boulders on the sides were positioned as supports for the capstones, which came last, to form a roof. All in all, it was an incredibly heavy job that could only be done with great effort and teamwork. The last step was digging out the sand from under the stones, after which the construction could be used as a hunebed: a revered place where we, the Stone Age people, buried, honoured and commemorated our ancestors.