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If you park your car here and walk into the forest, you will arrive at the Pinetum Ter Borgh in a kilometre's walk. You then pass an urn field and burial mound first. An authentic and understated cemetery where urns are buried in small burial mounds in perpetuity. People have lived and worked on the Hondsrug for more than 12,000 years. Archaeologists found places where the first inhabitants planted their fields, built their houses and entrusted their dead to the earth. People always looked for the best place to commemorate their dead. They built dolmens in the New Stone Age, raised burial mounds -tumuli- in the Late Stone Age and laid urn fields during the Late Bronze Age. The Pinetum is well worth a visit. variety of colours and shapes of the conifers. The steel blue colour of the Picea engelmannii 'Glauca', the yellow glow of the Metasequoia glyptostroboides 'Goldrush' and the wonderful wreath of needles of the Japanese wreath spruce. These are just a sampling of more than 400 conifers from all parts of the world. Arriving at the entrance, a California Incense Cedar and a Swedish Juniper welcome visitors!