Large stone graves near Kettelstorf
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 6 '54.7 " N , 10 ° 43' 36.5" E | ||
| place | Himbergen , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 768-769 | ||
The megalithic graves near Kettelstorf are a group of probably three graves from the Neolithic funnel cup culture near the district of Kettelstorf in the district of Uelzen ( Lower Saxony ), which belongs to the municipality of Himbergen . Grave 1 bears the Sprockhoff number 769, grave 2 the number 768.
location
The three graves are spread over a larger area in a forest east of Kettelstorf. Grave 2 is about 1 km northeast of the village. Another 1.1 km to the northeast is grave 1. 700 m west of grave 1 is grave 3. There are other large stone graves in the vicinity. The megalithic graves are located 1.9 km northwest of grave 3 at Groß Thondorf . There is also a stone circle 250 m southeast of grave 1 .
description
Grave 1
The complex has a north-south oriented burial chamber with a length of 7.5 m and a width of 1.8 m. In its original state, it should have had six or seven pairs of wall stones on the long sides. When Georg Otto Carl von Estorff took it in around 1846, the grave showed major damage: the northern end stone had been dragged outwards, some wall stones on the long sides were missing and all four remaining cap stones had fallen into the interior of the chamber. When Ernst Sprockhoff was re-enrolled in 1927, the condition of the facility had deteriorated even further. He found three wall stones on the eastern long side in their original positions and was able to identify another stone as a capstone. Other surrounding stones could no longer be precisely assigned and an exact reconstruction of the original appearance of the complex is not possible.
Grave 2
The grave has a round mound with a diameter of 18 m and a height of 1 m. About half a dozen stones lie around randomly within the mound and provide no information about the original appearance of the burial chamber.
Grave 3
Some stones mark the location of a possible third large stone grave, which Sprockhoff does not mention. The largest and most noticeable one has a series of blast holes on one side.
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 ).
- Karl Hermann Jacob : The megalithic graves of the district of Ülzen and the protection of the prehistoric monuments. In: News sheet for Lower Saxony's prehistory. Volume 1, p. 17ff.
- 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. 9-10.
