Great stone graves near Harlingen
| Great stone graves near Harlingen | |||
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 Great stone grave Harlingen 1 |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 9 '6.2 " N , 10 ° 57' 28.4" E | ||
| place | Hitzacker (Elbe) , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 726-727 | ||
The large stone graves near Harlingen are two grave complexes of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near the district of Harlingen in the district of Lüchow-Dannenberg ( Lower Saxony ), which belongs to Hitzacker (Elbe ). Grave 1 bears the Sprockhoff number 727, grave 2 the number 726.
location
The two graves are located about 1.5 km west of Harlingen in the Posade Forest. Grave 2 is located a good 200 m north of grave 1. Almost 1 km north of the two plants are the giant beds of Wietzetze .
description
Grave 1
The grave is in a very bad condition and has a north-south-facing barrow that is only 6 m long. To the south of the preserved part there is a depression. Four of the surrounding stones have been preserved on the east and five on the west. All but two are still in situ . The megalithic bed contains the remains of a burial chamber, of which four wall stones have been preserved. The northern end stone and the two adjoining stones on the western long side are still in situ.
Grave 2
This complex is even worse preserved than grave 1. It has a north-west-south-east oriented megalithic bed with a length of about 12 to 15 m. Five stones are still preserved from the enclosure, three of which mark the one that is no longer in situ on the south-eastern narrow side. Two more stones belong to the north-eastern long side. Only one of them is in its original position. Six stones inside the megalithic bed seem to belong to the burial chamber. Only one of them, which is probably the southeastern capstone, is still in situ. The other five stones can no longer be assigned with certainty.
literature
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , p. 51.