Dötlinger stone grave

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Dötlinger stone grave Large stone grave at the shooting range
Dötlinger stone grave

Dötlinger stone grave
Dötlinger Steingrab (Lower Saxony)
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Coordinates 52 ° 56 '22 .5 "  N , 8 ° 22' 44.9"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 56 '22 .5 "  N , 8 ° 22' 44.9"  E
place Dötlingen , Lower Saxony , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.
Sprockhoff no. 944

The Dötlinger stone grave (also known as the large stone grave at the shooting range ) is a Neolithic megalithic complex with the Sprockhoff number. 944. It originated between 3500 and 2800 BC. And is a plant of the funnel beaker culture . Neolithic monuments are an expression of the culture and ideology of Neolithic societies. Their origin and function are considered to be the hallmarks of social development.

It is located in the Lower Saxony municipality of Dötlingen in the Oldenburg district .

description

The passage grave is located in the center of Dötling on the street "Am Steingrab". There is a shooting range very close by , which is why it is nicknamed "At the shooting range".

It is a restored but destroyed stone grave with a chamber 18 m long and about 2.20 m wide. The east-west-oriented Emsland Chamber outperforms all Scandinavian systems. Burials were carried out here in the early Bronze Age . At the beginning of the 20th century, several stones from the monument were removed by the rifle club for a shooting range across the stone grave. Some stones are said to have been used to build the Dötlinger church . So only two thirds of the system is preserved. The megalithic complex had 22 bearing stones (15 preserved) and at least nine cap stones (2 preserved). The access is slightly off-center on the south side.

Extensive excavations were carried out here in 1956 and 1958. Extensive grave goods were found: pieces of jewelery ( amber chain ), vessels (12 quintals of potsherds ) and around 100 flint tools . The system was then restored, so you a good insight into the typical configuration of a megalithic tomb has: the spaces between the supporting stones are with a dry stone wall from sandstone slabs filled and earth, and the bottom of the grave chamber with boulders paved.

See also

literature

  • Ute Bartelt : Own construction method - large stone graves in western Lower Saxony. In: Archeology in Germany. Volume 4/2009, pp. 26-29 ( online ).
  • Anette Bußmann : Stone Age witnesses. Travel to the prehistory of northwest Germany. Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89995-619-1 , pp. 101-102.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , p. 134.

Web links

Commons : Großsteingrab Dötlingen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ J. Müller In: Varia neolithica VI 2009 p. 15