Passage grave near Ostereistedt
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 17 '37.5 " N , 9 ° 9' 7.1" E | ||
| place | Ostereistedt , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 647 | ||
The passage grave near Ostereistedt is a passage grave in Ostereistedt in the district of Rotenburg (Wümme) in Lower Saxony . The passage grave with the Sprockhoff no. 647 was created between 3500 and 2800 BC. BC in the Neolithic as a megalithic system of the funnel beaker culture (TBK). The passage grave is a form of Neolithic megalithic systems, which consists of a chamber and a structurally separated, lateral passage. This form is primarily found in Denmark, Germany and Scandinavia, as well as occasionally in France and the Netherlands. 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.
location
The passage grave is located at the Wennebostel farm in the Harsefeld state forest southwest of Ostereistedt. The stone chamber, around which there are some stones that are probably the remains of the enclosure, has suffered badly.
description
It is about a north-east-south-west oriented large stone grave , the chamber of which probably originally had seven capstones. Only two of them have survived, both no longer in situ . A capstone lies rolled off at the northeast end of the chamber, a second has fallen into the chamber. Four bearing stones of the north-western and five of the south-eastern long side as well as the north-eastern keystone are preserved roughly in situ from the chamber. The entrance was in the middle of the south-eastern long side. The passage can open in the middle or offset to the side (usually with an uneven number of carriers) into the chamber. Offset corridors are particularly common in Holstein and led to the name Holstein Chamber .
In 1878, during excavations in the stone chamber, a stone pavement was found at a depth of 75 centimeters. Ornate ceramic shards and two worked stones were found on the southern row of bearing stones (access area). About 2.5 kilometers southwest of the stone grave , the field stone cover of an early Iron Age burial mound was restored. The monument is located south of the railway line in forest department 540.
See also
literature
- Hery A. Lauer: Archaeological Hikes North Lower Saxony Verlag Hery A. Lauer, Göttingen 1979, ISBN 3-922541-08-9 , p. 148.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , p. 18.
Individual evidence
- ↑ J. Müller In: Varia neolithica VI 2009 p. 15