The private museum of amateur archaeologist Lammert Hingstman has no clear entrance, nor a few neatly arranged display cabinets. However, there is a wealth of special finds in his house and barn.
For about forty years, Lammert has been digging through the ground around his home in search of shards, pots, hand axes and other remains from the Bronze Age, Stone Age or prehistory. The infamous Bronneger was so fanatical that he was banned from spitting. Not that he cared one bit about it.
Lammert claims to have discovered the legendary lost prehistoric city of Hunsow. The city destroyed by Vikings must have been somewhere on the Hondsrug. The all-knowing Lammert does not care that several archaeologists no longer believe that Drenthe once had such an important city. Archaeologist Wijnand van der Sanden, now retired, stated that it was a large Roman settlement. The things that Lammert pulled out of the ground are therefore indeed of archaeological value.
Lammert, 81 years old, has now lost his wildest spittle hairs, although he will not simply give up the shovel. A few years ago he claimed to have discovered a dolmen. But archaeologists found no reason to dig. Much to Lammert’s dissatisfaction. How is he now? We visit ‘The Treasure Hunter of Bronneger’, whose truth is one that balances between fantasy and reality.