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Huis van Hilde (Hilde's House) is the
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information centre and repository of the
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of North Holland, which was opened in Castricum early 2015. It was named after a model and facial reconstruction that was made of a skeletal find from the 4th century and that came to be known as ''Hilde (of Castricum)''.


The province

In the Netherlands the preservation and
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of archaeological finds is a task of the provinces.Dag van de Bouw / Huis van Hilde, Castricum
website of an organisation of the Dutch construction industry, retrieved 23 September 2015.
Up to 2014 North Holland used a former rice-mill in
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for that purpose, but the depot was too small and climate control was insufficient. In 2011 the province decided to build an archaeological information centre in Castricum. Construction started mid-2013 and the new centre opened in January 2015.


Building

The building by Fons Verheijen has an oblong shape with a slightly curved facade, freely modelled after medieval farms of which remnants were found in North Holland. It has 4200 of floor space, 2200 of that is for the climate controlled repository. The centre has a permanent exhibition with around a 1000 finds dating from the
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period onwards. Show pieces are two medieval sarcophagi found in
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and Etersheim, three historical canoes and 14 models of humans, based on skeletal finds. The centre also has floor space reserved for temporary exhibitions.


Hilde

In 1995
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was performed, prior to the construction of the area ''Oosterbuurt'' in Castricum. Some thousands of (parts of) objects were found, the skeleton of a young woman among them. Further research showed that this woman had lived in the mid 4th century, had an age of 24 to 30 when she died and probably grew up in the eastern part of
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.Hilde
D'Hollosy's website, retrieved 23 september 2015.
Utrecht UMC made scans of the skull, from which anthropologist Maja d'Hollosy made a facial reconstruction, that she called Hilde. Afterwards Hilde played a central role in a 2006 book about archaeology in North Holland, titled ''The Land of Hilde'' and a full model was made of her.


External links


Official website


References

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