Great stone graves near Büstorf
| Great stone graves near Büstorf | |||
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| Coordinates | Büstorf 1 , Büstorf 2 , Büstorf 3 , Büstorf 4 | ||
| place | Rieseby OT Büstorf , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 50-53 | ||
The megalithic graves near Büstorf are a group of four megalithic tombs from the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Büstorf , a district of Rieseby in the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district in Schleswig-Holstein . They have the Sprockhoff numbers 50–53.
location
The graves are located northeast of Büstorf. Graves 1–3 are in petri wood. Grave 1 is the southernmost. Grave 2 is 300 m north of this and grave 3 is another 80 m northeast. Grave 4 is a bit out of the way, 730 m west-northwest of grave 1 on the edge of a field.
There are several other large stone graves in the vicinity : 1.9 km to the south-east is the large stone grave Hörst and 3.4 km west-southwest the large stone grave Bohnert . The destroyed large stone grave Norby was 2.2 km south-southwest .
description
Grave 1
Due to the dense vegetation, it cannot be determined whether this complex originally had a barren bed or a round pile of hills. Only the burial chamber can be seen , which is probably a north-south oriented passage grave . Only the northern end of the chamber is preserved. The end stone, the two adjoining wall stones on the west side and an adjoining wall stone on the east side are still in situ here . On them rests a capstone with a length of 1.8 m, a width of 1.6 m and a thickness of 1 m. Five stones lying around cannot be assigned with certainty. Two of them might belong to a corridor on the east side of the chamber.
Grave 2
This largely destroyed facility originally had a pile of mounds. The burial chamber is probably an extended dolmen, oriented approximately north-south, with a length of 2.5 m and a width of 1.2 m. There are only three stones left, including the in situ northern capstone. The removal holes can be seen in two other stones.
Grave 3
This complex has a heavily destroyed northeast-southwest oriented rectangular barren bed with a length between 16 m and 20 m, a width between 4 m and 6 m and a preserved height of 1 m. Most of the surrounding stones are missing and the mound is heavily churned. A burial chamber is not recognizable.
Grave 4
This system is the remainder of a northeast-southwest oriented extended dolmen with an original length of about 1.8 m, a width of 1.5 m and a height of 1.3 m. After Sprockhoff's reconstruction, the chamber originally had two wall stones on the north-west and one on the south-east long side, one end stone on the north-east and two on the south-west long side and two cap stones. The north-eastern stone of the north-western long side, the south-eastern wall stone, the south-eastern end stone of the south-western narrow side and half of a cap stone have been preserved. The second capstone was blown up and removed in 1937. At the southeast corner, a small entry stone marks the 0.4 m wide entrance to the chamber.
literature
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 1: Schleswig-Holstein. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966, pp. 18-19.