The German juggernauts that are the hunen-bett's are but the Main bulk of Northern Europe's 'entirely-created-with-post-glacial-erratics' megalithic sites. In an effort to sweep away the notion that the Dutch hunebetts is all there is to see in Northern Europe (these are an appendix of a huge area reaching NW Poland in the east and S Sweden in the North), I would like to highlight the Saxon areas immediately east of Drenthe (where the Dutch sites are) up towards Denmark and eastwards towards Mecklenburg (the north of the former German Democratic Republic). Although the nazis and their extensive motorway and road building programme cleared away 90% of them, the numbers are still in the 1000s especially in those areas far from the main industrial centres of the west (like rural Mecklenburg).
Many years ago, in Balfour's guide of European Megalithic sites (Megalithic Mysteries), I read that 20,000 sites have been catalogued in Denmark. We all know that that might well be a ridiculous number, as site-counting often include all sorts of various paraphernalia and dodgy old-fashioned methods (a bit like US vote counting).
I have only been to Denmark once (Arhus) and I need a good overview of their main graves now so as to compare them with their southern German counterparts. Now, the thing that bothers me is, Denmark has no proper website about their stones and I do not know of any books on Danish sites ???
(except http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/dolmens.html)
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