Enter the 5000-year-old Denghoog, next to the town church, which measures 3m by 5m and is nearly 2m tall in parts. The outer walls consist of 12 stones weighing around 40 tonnes. How Stone Age builders moved these is a Stonehenge-esque mystery.
Denghoog
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