Great stone graves near Anloo-Noord

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Great stone graves near Anloo-Noord Hunebed D8, Hunebed D8a, Hunebed D8b
The large stone grave D8 near Anloo

The large stone grave D8 near Anloo
Great stone graves near Anloo-Noord (Netherlands)
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Coordinates Anloo-Noord 1 coordinates: 53 ° 3 ′ 35.7 ″  N , 6 ° 41 ′ 58.6 ″  E , Anloo-Noord 2 , Anloo-Noord 3
place Aa en Hunze , OT Anloo , Drenthe , The Netherlands
Emergence 3470 to 2760 BC Chr.
van Giffen no. D8, D8a, D8b

The megalithic graves near Anloo-Noord were originally a group of probably three megalithic tombs from the Neolithic western group of the funnel cup culture near Anloo , a district of Aa en Hunze in the Dutch province of Drenthe . Only one of these still exists today. The remains of the two destroyed graves were discovered in 1992. The surviving grave bears the Van Giffen number D8, the destroyed graves bear the numbers D8a and D8b.

location

The graves are located north of Anloo in the Kniphorstbos forest area. The preserved grave D8 is in the forest, just a few meters east of the Bosweg. The destroyed graves are only a little to the southeast in a clearing. There are several other large stone graves in the vicinity: 1 km to the west is the large stone grave Schipborg (D7) and 1.1 m east of the large stone grave Annen (D9).

Research history

Grave D8 was first mentioned in 1711 by Ludolf Smids . Petrus Camper made a drawing in 1768. The first restoration took place between 1848 and 1875. In 1878 the first investigation was carried out by William Collings Lukis and Henry Dryden . In 1918 Albert Egges van Giffen documented the facility for his atlas of the Dutch megalithic graves. In 1952 the grave was restored a second time. A smaller investigation took place in 1965. The graves D8a and D8b were only discovered in 1992 by A. Klein Wassink, Jan Evert Musch and J. Musch and examined superficially. An excavation has not yet taken place.

description

Grave D8

The complex is an east-north-east-west-south-west oriented passage grave . A stone enclosure could not be found. The burial chamber has a length of 7.9 m and a width of 4.4 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. This was originally a corridor made of two wall stones, of which only one is left. The standing hole of the missing gang stone was filled with concrete .

Grave D8a

A flat hill with an oval can be seen from the complex. The pit has a length of 11 m and a width of 6 m. It probably originally housed a burial chamber with four or five pairs of wall stones on the long sides and a capping stone on each of the narrow sides. Since no excavation took place, the exact dimensions of the chamber and the type of grave are unknown. However, like almost all large stone graves in the Netherlands, it was probably a passage grave.

Grave D8b

A flat hill with an oval can also be seen from this complex. The pit has a length of 6 m and a width of 3.5 m. It probably originally housed a burial chamber with a maximum of three pairs of wall stones on the long sides and one end stone on each of the narrow sides. Remains of the stone chamber plaster could still be found at the bottom of the pit. Since no excavation took place, the exact dimensions of the chamber and the type of grave are unknown. However, like almost all large stone graves in the Netherlands, it was probably a passage grave.

Finds

Ceramic shards and flint artifacts from the funnel beaker culture were found on the surface of the destroyed graves D8a and D8b.

literature

  • 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 , p. 207 ( online version ).
  • Albert Egges van Giffen : De Hunebedden in Nederland , 3 volumes. Oosthoek, Utrecht 1925.
  • Evert van Ginkel , Sake Jager, Wijnand van der Sanden: Hunebedden. Monuments van een steentijdcultuur. Uniepers, Abcoude 1999, ISBN 978-9068252026 , pp. 168, 194-195.
  • Sake. Jager: Anloo. In: Nieuwe Drentse Volksalmanak. Volume 111, pp. 178-180.
  • 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 .

Web links

Commons : Großsteingrab Anloo-Noord  - 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 ).