Great stone graves near Allenbostel

The megalithic graves near Allenbostel were two megalithic graves from the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Allenbostel , a district of Hanstedt in the district of Uelzen ( Lower Saxony ). They were destroyed in the 19th century. The graves were located south of the village at Machbruch. They were documented in the 1840s by Georg Otto Carl von Estorff , but not described in detail. No information is available on the orientation, dimensions and type of grave.

literature

• Georg O. Carl von Estorff : Pagan antiquities of the area of ​​Uelzen in the former Bardengaue (Kingdom of Hanover). Hahn'sche Hof bookstore, Hanover 1846, ( digitized ).
• 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. 74.