Great stone graves near Höver
The megalithic graves near Höver were two megalithic tombs of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Höver , a district of Weste in the district of Uelzen ( Lower Saxony ). They were destroyed in the 19th century. The two systems were documented in the 1840s by Georg Otto Carl von Estorff . He made a floor plan of a grave; this system bears the Sprockhoff number 782.
location
Grave 1 was located south of Höver, on the eastern side of the road to Oetzendorf . Grave 2 was immediately west of Höver.
description
Grave 1
The complex had a north-south oriented burial chamber with a length of 6.2 m and a width of 1.3 m. The grave was no longer completely complete in von Estorff's documentation. It consisted of six wall stones each on the long sides and one end stone each on the narrow sides. Only four of the capstones were left; three had rushed inside the chamber, the fourth was still on. On the eastern narrow side there was a gap between the second and third wall stone from the north - presumably the entrance with which the complex could be referred to as a passage grave.
Grave 2
Grave 2 was not described in detail by von Estorff, as it was already destroyed at the time it was recorded. No information is available on the orientation, dimensions and type of grave.
literature
- Georg O. Carl von Estorff : Pagan antiquities of the area of Uelzen in the former Bardengaue (Kingdom of Hanover). Hahn'sche Hof bookstore, Hanover 1846, ( digitized ).
- Johannes Heinrich Müller , Jacobus Reimers : Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 85 ( PDF; 25.0 MB ).
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , pp. 67, 75.
