The area between the Lange Voorhout, Parkstraat, Kazernestraat and Kleine Kazernestraat in The Hague was a mine of information about the past. Nobody knew about it until the mid-1990s, when archaeologists had the chance to explore the site ahead of the construction of a new building for the Netherlands Court of Audit.
It was to be the most spectacular excavation ever undertaken in the centre of The Hague. The archaeologists discovered evidence of occupation in the Roman era, the late Middle Ages and right through to the present.
It all began with a barrier bar around 5500 years ago. This was where the village of Die Haghe developed in the course of the thirteenth century. And it is the backbone of the city we know today.
Altar for Nehelennia, goddess of the sea and fertility. Roman