Great stone graves near Achim

The megalithic graves near Achim were three megalithic graves from the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Achim in the Verden district ( Lower Saxony ). They were destroyed in 1870 and 1876.

location

The graves were located in a mountain of sand near the Achim train station. Grave 1 was a few meters west of grave 1 and grave 2 was also 30 m to the west.

description

Grave 1 was 20 m long and 3.5 m wide; allegedly it was over 4 m high. Grave 2 was a little smaller. Grave 3 was 11.5 m long and 3.5 m wide; the height here was also allegedly over 4 m. It had six wall stones 2-3 m high and three cap stones. The exact grave type of the facilities cannot be determined with certainty on the basis of this information, also because it is not clear whether the dimensions refer to the megalithic bed or the burial chamber .

See also

• List of large stone graves in Lower Saxony, Bremen and Hamburg

literature

• Johannes Heinrich Müller , Jacobus Reimers : Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 216 ( PDF; 25.0 MB ).
• Detlef Schünemann : The barrows of the Verden district. Lax, Hildesheim 1963, pp. 15-16.
• 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. 21.