In Search of the Tomb Builders

Take a journey through 150,000 years at the Hunebed Centre and come face to face with prehistory. Your journey through time begins in the Ice Ages when the landscape was first shaped by wind and ice.

You will discover the first people who settled here centuries later and learn how they left their own mark on the landscape. See how our ancestors lived and worked here for thousands of years.

Hunebed builders

Your visit to the Hunebed Centre begins inside the museum with the story of the hunebed builders. Hunebeds are ancient prehistoric tombs built over 5,000 years ago, which means that they are older than the Egyptian Pyramids and older than Stonehenge. They are called ‘hunebeds’ because in the past people thought that they were the beds of giants or ‘hunen’.