About Simpelveld

Around 4.000 BC. farmers in hut villages lived in the area of Simpelveld. These people are nowadays called band ceramics, because of their pottery decoration. Several Roman villas, villae rusticae, have been excavated around Simpelveld, which were built in the 1st century.
On December 11, 1930, some sandstone coffins or sarcophagi from the Roman era were excavated. one of the coffins was the grave of a rich woman.