Today's
Sunday stamps' theme is '
Archaeology/anthropology'. There are several interesting archaelogic / anthropologic sites in the Netherlands, like the Hunebeds and Roman excavations, but to my surprise postage stamps on this theme are very hard to find.
Besides some '
personal stamps' (issued unofficially for/by companies or private persons) I didn't find any stamp on the
hunebeds. These are the oldest preserved buildings in the Netherlands. Over 5000 years ago they have been built, in the east of the Netherlands. Today you
can find hunebeds mainly in the province of Drenthe.
After some more research, I discovered that this stamp, which I already have for years, is part of a serie of four, issued in 1977, themed 'archaeology', that is, Roman excavations in the Netherlands.
First I thought it to be just the wall of a canal. But it appears to be part of a Roman bathhouse, of the
thermae in Heerlen, in the south of the Netherlands.
There's a design of it on
this website, and a photo of the original archaeologic location you can see
here.
The other stamps from this serie are:
a
face helmet/mask (also to be viewed
here),
the
goddess Nehalennia,
and the
ship of Zwammerdam.
On the internet I found
this FDC:
