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Dutch Visit

As said in the Netherlands generally nothing much can be visited / seen. Most is in museums. So this is more a 'did you know that' list than a 'did you go there' list.
Ofcourse 'Ye Olde Romans' left their important limes line. But not much has remained. We have a list though ...


OTHER PLACES

There are ofcourse other important finding places of which we do not know the old name (In bold anything visitable). Such places are :

Where What
   
Amsterdam They were never here, but : museums
Beek Remains of a roman villa
Bocholtz Burial chamber with extensive gifts and sarcophagus
De Meern Three large sailing vessels and watchtower remains
Empel Gallo-roman temple complex. Probably for an important victory.
Elst Important gallo-roman temple complex
Halder Coin ship with large coin hoard (4500+) Pieces
Heerlen Thermae in a museum
's-Hertogenbosch Maybe a small settlement & museum (Noord Brabants Museum)
Kerkrade Large Gallo-Roman Villa
Leiden Castellum & museum (Rijksmuseum voor Oudheden)
Maastricht In the cellar of Hotel Derlon a small 'living' piece of history can be visitied
Nistelrode Settlement and largest bronze hoard ever
Nijmegen Castra and settlement & 2 museums
Utrecht Castra, small remainder can be visited (?) near the Dom church
Valkenburg (Lb) A.o. roman catacombs (nothing like Rome !)
Vechten Rebuilt roman watchtower
Venlo Provincial museum featuring some roman stuff
Voorburg A park on the spot where the Vicus of Forum Hadriani was ... An extremely small collection in the municipal museum
Woerden Castra remains near the A12 highway and a citymuseum
   
Old Rhine/Oude Rijn A river these days flowing roughly from Utrecht to Leiden. Was in fact the Rhine river in Roman times but this river changed its course later on (possibly because of Roman waterworks near Nijmegen). All along the course were watchtowers et al. I.e. along the 'then' course, not the 'now' course. The watchtowers are regularly found in varying condition. A good Roman road also ran along (a.o.) the Old Rhine.
 

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