Great stone graves near Gammelby-Eichtal

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Great stone graves near Gammelby-Eichtal
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Great stone graves near Gammelby-Eichtal (Schleswig-Holstein)
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Coordinates 54 ° 30 '26.9 "  N , 9 ° 47' 35.4"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 30 '26.9 "  N , 9 ° 47' 35.4"  E
place Gammelby , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.
Sprockhoff no. 55

The megalithic graves near Gammelby-Eichtal were originally probably three megalithic tombs of the Neolithic funnel cup culture at Gut Eichtal (also Eichthal ) in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde in Schleswig-Holstein, which belongs to the municipality of Gammelby . Only one of these still exists today. It bears the Sprockhoff number 55. The preserved grave and the remains of a destroyed grave were archaeologically examined in 1950 and 1951 by Hans Hingst and Peter La Baume .

location

The preserved grave is located north of Gammelby and southwest of the Eichtal estate, immediately east of the road to Sönderby . According to Sprockhoff, this is not the original location. Hingst states that it was discovered in 1950 while plowing on the farm paddock of the Eichtal estate. The actual site is probably not very far from where it is today. The second grave, the remains of which were examined by La Baume in 1951, was about 150 m northwest of grave 1. A third grave was after Sprockhoff 100 m east-southeast of grave 1.

description

Grave 1

The complex has a slightly oval mound. The length from north to south is 25 m and the width from east to west 20 m. The hill originally had a stone enclosure. The burial chamber is a small, east-southeast-west-north-west oriented large dolmen with a length of about 3 m and a width of about 1.4 m. The chamber originally consisted of three pairs of wall stones on the long sides, one end stone on the western and one smaller end stone on the eastern narrow side, a threshold stone on the southeast corner and three cap stones. During his investigation, Hingst found the eastern end stone, the threshold stone, the two eastern wall stones on the long sides and the middle wall stone on the north side. Between the end stone and the adjoining wall stone on the north side, Hingst could still make out remains of spandrel masonry. On the outside of the footprints of the wall stones, he also found remains of a clay pack . The missing three wall stones, the western end stone and two cap stones were shifted at the edge of the field. They are now back in their original place. Only one capstone is missing. Hingst did not find any grave goods.

Grave 2

The destroyed grave 2 had a mound that enclosed a long oval burial chamber with a length of about 3 m and a width of 1.6 m. La Baume was a mud pack on the outer sides, remains still the hard shoulders of wall stones, remnants of the Chamber patch of flint - Grus notice and shards of pottery of the Funnel Beaker culture. A flint dagger was also found on the edge of the hill, probably from a ruined end-Neolithic tree coffin grave .

Grave 3

There is no information about the orientation, dimensions and type of the third grave.

literature

  • Hans Hingst : Great stone graves in Schleswig-Holstein. In: Offa. Volume 42, 1985, pp. 74-75.
  • Hartwig Jess : Considerations on the excavation and reconstruction of the Eichthaler stone grave. In: Yearbook of the home community of the Eckernförde district. 1951, pp. 70-72.
  • Peter La Baume : Finds from a burial mound near Gammelby-Eichthal, Kr. Eckernförde. In: Germania. Volume 29, 1951, pp. 310-311 ( online ).
  • Peter La Baume : Disappeared burial mounds near Eichthal. In: Yearbook of the home community of the Eckernförde district. Volume 9, 1951, pp. 66ff.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 1: Schleswig-Holstein. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966, p. 19.

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