Vintage Pin

€15

Vintage Pin. Thanks to a kind Adverts user who helped me identify it. This old vintage pin represents Grotte de Han Cave in Belgium - the Han Caves in Rochefort.

The Cave of Han has been known to mankind since the dawn of time. A variety of artefacts dating back to 10.500 years ago were uncovered by archaeologists diving on the bottom of the river Lesse. The objects had probably been thrown into the water as offerings to the gods. According to historians, the Hole of Han, where the Lesse resurfaces, was a place of pilgrimage as well a place of worship. As of the second half of the 19th century, with the birth of tourism, a totally different type of pilgrims travel to the Cave of Han...