Heers, Netherlands

Netherlands

Heers, Netherlands holds 24 Bunkabop connections with 3196 places across 9 topics, led by religion, archaeology, history, and nature. Northwest of the village, a Frankish-era row grave field was excavated, yielding 25 graves. In 1871, amateur archaeologist Petrus Panken recovered a nearly undamaged terracotta sculpture of Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt. A later investigation, led by archaeologist Jan Hendrik Holwerda of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (the national archaeological museum of the Netherlands) in Leiden, unearthed canal traces from a Roman watchtower. Italy, Rome, and Amsterdam share many of its connections.