Passage grave of Zeijen

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Passage grave of Zeijen Hunebed D5
The large stone grave D5 near Zeijen

The large stone grave D5 near Zeijen
Passage grave of Zeijen (Netherlands)
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Coordinates 53 ° 3 '42.8 "  N , 6 ° 31' 52.7"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 3 '42.8 "  N , 6 ° 31' 52.7"  E
place Tynaarlo , OT Zeijen , Drenthe , The Netherlands
Emergence 3470 to 2760 BC Chr.
van Giffen no. D5

The passage grave of Zeijen is a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic western group of the funnel cup culture (TBK) near Zeijen , a district of Tynaarlo in the Dutch province of Drenthe . The grave bears the Van Giffen number D5.

location

The grave is located in a field northwest of Zeijen. It can be reached via a dirt road. Settlements from the beginning of the Neolithic have been found nearby . In the northwest is Nord Veld, an area with many burial mounds and a large complex of Celtic Fields ( Dutch Raatakkers ).

Research history

The grave was first described by Nicolaus Westendorp , who visited it in 1814 and published a report on it in 1815. Another description was made in 1833 by Caspar Reuvens , who also carried out a smaller excavation. According to a drawing from 1847, the mound of the grave was largely intact at that time and only the capstones were visible. After a stone collector began to remove the pavement from the tomb, the complex was bought by Lucas Oldenhuis Gratama in 1857 for 40 guilders and given to the province of Drenthe. In 1878 the first documentation was made by William Collings Lukis and Henry Dryden . The finds made are now in the British Museum . In 1918 Albert Egges van Giffen documented the facility for his atlas of the Dutch megalithic graves. In 1952 a restoration took place and in 1965 a smaller excavation at the entrance area. Since 1993 the facility has been a national monument ( Rijksmonument ).

description

The complex is an east-southeast-west-northwest oriented passage grave . It lies in a slight depression in the terrain. The original mound has largely been removed. A stone enclosure could not be found. The burial chamber has a length of 7.4 m and a width of 2.5 m. It has four pairs of wall stones on the long sides, one end stone each on the narrow sides and four cap stones. The access to the chamber is in the middle of the southern long side. There are no upstream gangways.

See also

literature

  • Jan Albert Bakker : The TRB West Group. Studies in the Chronology and Geography of the Makers of Hunebeds and Tiefstich Pottery. Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1979, ISBN 978-90-70319-05-2 .
  • Jan Albert Bakker: The Dutch Hunebedden. Megalithic Tombs of the Funnel Beaker Culture. International Monographs in Prehistory, Ann Arbor 1992, ISBN 1-87962-102-9 .
  • Jan Albert Bakker: Megalithic Research in the Netherlands, 1547-1911. From 'Giant's Beds' and 'Pillars of Hercules' to accurate investigations. Sidestone Press, Leiden 2010, ISBN 9789088900341 , pp. 205-206 ( online version ).
  • Evert van Ginkel , Sake Jager, Wijnand van der Sanden: Hunebedden. Monuments van een steentijdcultuur. Uniepers, Abcoude 1999, ISBN 978-9068252026 , p. 166.
  • Albert Egges van Giffen : De Hunebedden in Nederland , 3 volumes. Oosthoek, Utrecht 1925.
  • G. de Leeuw: Onze hunebedden. Gids before Drentse hunebedden en de Trechterbekerkultuur . Flint 'Nhoes, Borger 1984.
  • William Collings Lukis : Report on the hunebedden of Drenthe, Netherlands. In: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London. 2nd series. Volume 8, 1878, pp. 47-55 ( online ).
  • Wijnand van der Sanden , Hans Dekker: Gids voor de hunebedden in Drenthe en Groningen . WBooks, Zwolle 2012, ISBN 978-9040007040 .
  • Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .

Web links

Commons : Ganggrab von Zeijen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anna L. Brindley : The typochronology of TRB West Group pottery. In: Palaeohistoria. Volume 28, 1986, pp. 93-132 ( online ). Annual figures corrected according to Moritz Mennenga : Between Elbe and Ems. The settlements of the funnel beaker culture in northwest Germany (= early monumentality and social differentiation. Volume 13). Habelt, Bonn 2017, ISBN 978-3-7749-4118-2 , p. 93 ( online ).
  2. ^ Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed: 464135 te Zeyen