Great stone graves near Buinen

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Great stone graves near Buinen Hunebed D28, Hunebed D29
Buinen-Noord, Buinen-Zuid
The large stone grave D28

The large stone grave D28
Great stone graves near Buinen (Netherlands)
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Coordinates Buinen D28 coordinates: 52 ° 55 '33.4 "  N , 6 ° 48' 40.6"  O , Buinen D29
place Borger-Odoorn , OT Borger , Drenthe , Netherlands
Emergence 3300 to 3075 BC Chr.
van Giffen no. D28, D29

The megalithic graves near Buinen are two megalithic graves of the Neolithic western group of the funnel beaker culture in Borger , a district of Borger-Odoorn in the Dutch province of Drenthe . The graves bear the Van Giffen numbers D28 and D29.

location

The graves are located between Borger and Buinen south of the Buinerstraat. They can be reached via a dirt road. Grave D29 is only about 40 m south-southeast of D28. Although the two systems are still in Borger's area, they are usually listed under Buinen in the literature. There are numerous other large stone graves in the vicinity: 1 km to the northwest is the large stone grave Borger (D27), 2.1 km north-northwest the five large stone graves at Bronneger (D21-D25), 3.1 km northwest the large stone grave Drouwenerveld (D26) and 3.4 km north-north-west are the two large stone graves at Drouwen (D19 and D20).

Research history

In 1878 the first documentation was made by William Collings Lukis and Henry Dryden . In 1918 Albert Egges van Giffen documented the two systems for his atlas of the Dutch large stone graves. In 1927 he carried out an archaeological dig in grave D28. The facilities have been national monuments ( Rijksmonumenten ) since 1993 .

description

Grave D28

The complex is an east-southeast-west-northwest oriented passage grave . The burial chamber has a length of 5.8 m. It has four pairs of wall stones on the long sides and one end stone each on the narrow sides. Of the four original capstones, the eastern one is missing. The remaining capstones lie on the wall stones. The entrance is in the middle of the southern long side. Upstream gangways could not be found. A stone enclosure is also missing.

Grave D29

Grave D29

D29 is an east-north-east-west-south-west oriented passage grave. It's very similar to D28. The burial chamber has four pairs of wall stones on the long sides, a closing stone on the western and a narrow plate on the eastern narrow side. Of the three original capstones, the eastern one is missing. The remaining capstones lie on the wall stones. The entrance is in the middle of the southern long side. There was a corridor in front of it, of which only one wall stone has survived. A stone enclosure cannot be made out.

Finds

During his excavation, Van Giffen found numerous ceramic shards of the funnel beaker culture as well as two spirals made of copper wire , which are the oldest known metal objects in the Netherlands. They are now in the Drents Museum in Assen . Similar finds come from the large stone grave D19 near Drouwen . The pottery is dated to grades 3–5 of the typological system of the Western Beaker Group established by Anna Brindley . This corresponds to the period 3300-3075 BC. Furthermore, van Giffen found ceramic shards from the end of the Neolithic , which can be assigned to the individual grave culture and the bell-cup culture .

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. 214 ( 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 , p. 179.
  • Jan N. Lanting: De NO-Nederlandse / NW-Duitse Klokbekergroep: culturele achtergrond, typologie van het aardewerk, datering, verspreiding en grafritueel. In: Palaeohistoria. Volume 49/50, 2007/2008 (2008), pp. 267-269 ( online ).
  • 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 : Great stone graves near Buinen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed: 464166 te Borger
  2. ^ Anna L. Brindley: The typochronology of TRB West Group pottery. In: Palaeohistoria. Volume 28, 1986, pp. 93-132 ( online ).
  3. ^ 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 ).