Great stone graves near Damsdorf
| Great stone graves near Damsdorf | |||
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 3 '39.1 " N , 10 ° 17' 14.8" E | ||
| place | Damsdorf , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 233-236 | ||
The megalithic graves near Damsdorf were four megalithic tombs of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Damsdorf in the Segeberg district in Schleswig-Holstein . They have the Sprockhoff numbers 233–236. Grave 1 was destroyed shortly after its discovery in 1925. Graves 2–4 were archaeologically examined by Friedrich Knorr in 1906 . When exactly they were destroyed is unknown.
location
Grave 1 was located west-southwest of Damsdorf, directly on the border with Tarbek . The exact location of graves 2-4 is not known. There are several other large stone graves in the vicinity : 780 m west of grave 1 are the large stone graves near Tarbek and 2.7 km east the large stone grave Tensfeld . 1.6 km north-north-west were the destroyed megalithic stone graves near Schmalensee .
description
Grave 1
This complex had an east-west oriented barren bed with a length of 75 m and a width of 5 m. The stone enclosure was largely preserved in 1925. Some of the stones on the narrow sides were over 2 m high. The burial chamber was probably in the eastern part of the bed. Only two stones remained from her, which were lying in a sand extraction pit.
Grave 2
This system had a north-south oriented, slightly oval mound with a length of 10 m and a width of 8 m. During the investigation in 1906, numerous stones were still preserved from the enclosure, especially in the east and west. In the north-south oriented also grave chamber there was a passage grave of subtype Holstein chamber with a length of 3.1 m and a width m of 1.5. There were four wall stones on the western and three on the eastern long side and one end stone each on the narrow sides. The northernmost stone was missing on the east side. Of the original four cap stones, three were still preserved. The access to the chamber was located between the third stone, seen from the south, and the missing northernmost stone on the eastern side. Upstream of it was a corridor that had two wall stones on the north side and one on the south side. The corridor was 1.5 m long and 0.5 m wide.
Grave 3
This complex had an east-west oriented mound bed with a length of 27 m and a width of 7 m. The burial chamber was in the western half of the bed. It was a transverse, north-south oriented extended dolmen with a length of 2.2 m and a width of 1 m. There were two pairs of wall stones on the long sides, a closing stone on the northern and a half-height entry stone on the southern narrow side. The cap stones were missing.
Grave 4
This complex had an east-west oriented mound bed with a length of 78 m and a width of 7 m. The burial chamber was in the eastern half of the bed. It was a transverse, north-south oriented extended dolmen with a length of 2.5 m and a width of 1 m. One narrow wall stone and one on the long side on the eastern side and one of originally two wall stones on the western long side as well as a closing stone on the northern narrow side were preserved. The south side was "walled up". The cap stones were missing. Knorr found a thick nackiges his inquiry Feuerstein - ax .
literature
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 1: Schleswig-Holstein. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966, pp. 60–61.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Damsdorf Langbett