Great stone graves near Goosefeld
| Great stone graves near Goosefeld | |||
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| Coordinates | Goosefeld 1 , Goosefeld 2 , Goosefeld 3 , Goosefeld 4 | ||
| place | Goosefeld , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 75-78 | ||
The megalithic graves near Goosefeld are four megalithic graves from the Neolithic funnel beaker culture near Goosefeld in the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district in Schleswig-Holstein . They have the Sprockhoff numbers 75-78.
location
The graves do not form a coherent group. Grave 1 is located west of Goosefeld on a meadow. Grave 2 is located east of the village and 980 m east-southeast of grave 1 in a field. Grave 3 is 1 km south-southwest of grave 2 and west of Lehmsiek . Grave 4 is located 760 m south-southeast of grave 2 and north of Lehmsiek.
770 m south-southwest of grave 3 is the large stone grave Groß Wittensee .
description
Grave 1
Remnants of an almost east-west oriented burial chamber are still preserved from this complex . There are still eight stones left, but they do not allow any conclusions to be drawn about the exact dimensions and type of the chamber.
Grave 2
This complex has a north-south oriented burial chamber. Two wall stones have been preserved on the eastern and one on the western long side as well as a cap stone with a length of 1.9 m, a width of 1.7 m and a thickness of 0.8 m. The two closing stones on the narrow sides and a second wall stone on the west side are missing. Since the preserved wall stones are set up lengthways instead of on edge and the chamber narrows sharply towards the top, Ernst Sprockhoff classified it as an Urdolmen .
Grave 3
This complex has a north-west-south-east oriented mound bed with a length of 41 m and a width of 7 m. Several stones of the enclosure have been preserved on the long sides. The bed contains two north-east-south-west oriented burial chambers. The first is on the southeast end of the bed. Here Ernst Sprockhoff could only find a pit with a wall stone and another, indefinite stone. Due to the size of the pit, Sprockhoff concluded that it could be an enlarged dolmen . The second chamber is at the northwest end of the bed. It is an ancient dolmen or a stone box with two pairs of wall stones on the long sides, one end stone each on the narrow sides and a preserved cap stone.
Grave 4
This complex has an east-west oriented burial chamber, which is the remainder of an enlarged dolmen or a large dolmen . Two wall stones on the north and one on the south long side are still preserved. A capstone with a length of 2.5 m long, 2.2 m wide and 1.1 m thick rests on them. Another stone in the east cannot be assigned with certainty. The original length of the chamber cannot be determined with certainty.
literature
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 1: Schleswig-Holstein. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966, pp. 24-25.