It has been associated with the Wessex culture from the same period in southern England,[1] and is one of the material cultures of this part of northwestern continental Europe which has been proposed to have had a "Nordwestblock" language which was Indo-European, but neither Germanic nor Celtic.

The concept of a distinct Hilversum culture started to develop in 1950, with the excavation of grave mounds near the hamlet of Toterfout [nl] and the nearby forest of Halve Mijl.

This led archeologist Willem Glasbergen [nl] to propose a new classification, the Hilversum type, and the conclusion that later continental Deverel pottery would have "devolved" from this type.

[3]: 24–26 An individual without funerary context was found in the Krabbeplas artificial lake (Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland province), he was dated to 1421-1216 cal BCE, his Y-chromosome DNA was R1b-S497 (a derivation from R1b-U106).

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