Great stone graves on the Strietberg

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The large stone graves on the Strietberg (also Stritberg), a hill east of Raven, a district of Soderstorf in the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony , were examined by the Helms Museum in 1964 and then restored. The chambers of two passage graves were prepared with existing stones, the pavement was added and the mound was backfilled up to the capstone level. The facilities of the funnel beaker culture (TBK) date from the Middle Neolithic (3500–2800 BC). 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.

The border between Raven and Wetzen runs between the two large stone graves, which are only 50 m apart .

The western plant

The excavation revealed a total of 13 bearing stones (11 of the chamber and two of the corridor - partially fallen over) and two cap stones that had fallen into the chamber. The chamber had been ransacked long before the investigation, but ceramic remains of the funnel beaker culture (mostly outside the chamber) and flint tools from the individual grave culture were recovered. In addition, an urn burial from the pre-Roman Iron Age (around 300 BC) was found in the hill . The passage grave presents itself in the restored state as a six meter long chamber with lateral transition. Two of the former five capstones are now back on. In Ernst Sprockhoff's "Atlas of Germany's Megalithic Tombs" the passage grave is listed under Sprockhoff no. 680, or as "Raven Grab 2" ( location ).

  • Strietberg West also Raven
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The eastern plant

Before the excavation, the eastern complex was a random pile of stones in which a megalithic complex could hardly be recognized. The condition was the result of stone felling, probably in the 19th century. During the excavation, in addition to the five remaining bearing stones of the chamber, the shape of the chamber and the corridor could be determined from the footprints of other bearing stones. Relics of the funnel beaker culture and the subsequent burials through the individual grave culture came to light in the ransacked hill . In Ernst Sprockhoff's "Atlas of Germany's Megalithic Tombs" the passage grave is listed as "Sprockhoff 681", or also as "Wetzen Grab 1" ( location ).

  • Strietberg Ost also Wetzen
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See also

literature

  • Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , pp. 34-35.
  • Willi Wegewitz : The stone graves on the Strietberg. In: Guide to Prehistoric and Protohistoric Monuments. Volume 7. Hamburg-Harburg, Sachsenwald, northern Lüneburg Heath. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1967, pp. 129-133.

Individual evidence

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

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