The Hilversum culture is a prehistoric material culture

Material culture

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 found in middle Bronze Age

Bronze Age

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 in the region of the southern Netherlands

Netherlands

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 and northern Belgium

Belgium

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. It has been associated with the Wessex culture

Wessex culture

The Wessex culture is the predominant prehistoric culture of central and southern Britain during the early Bronze Age, originally defined by the British archaeologist Stuart Piggott in 1938...

 from the same period in southern England, and is one of the material cultures of this part of northwestern continental Europe which was been proposed to have had a "Nordwestblock

Nordwestblock

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" language which was indo-european

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, but neither Germanic

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 nor Celtic

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.

The culture was bordered to its northeast by the Elp culture

Elp culture

The Elp culture is a Bronze Age archaeological culture of the Netherlands having earthenware pottery of low quality known as "Kümmerkeramik" as a marker...

, to which it may have been been related, and to its north by the Hoogkarspel culture.