Great stone graves near Lemgrabe
| Great stone graves near Lemgrabe | |||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 9 '15.9 " N , 10 ° 41' 24.3" E | ||
| place | Dahlenburg , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 716-717 | ||
The large stone graves at Lemgrabe are two between 3500 and 2800 BC. Systems of the Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture (TBK) developed near the district of Lemgrabe in the district of Lüneburg ( Lower Saxony ), which belongs to the municipality of Dahlenburg . Grave 1 bears the Sprockhoff number 717, grave 2 the number 716.
location
The two plants are located southwest of Lemgrabe in a wooded area. Grave 1 is 250 m southeast of grave 2. There are numerous other large stone graves in the vicinity. The large stone grave Ahndorf is 1.2 km southeast and the large stone grave near Seedorf is 1.6 km northeast .
description
Grave 1
The plant is oriented northwest-southeast and has a flat hill bed. The burial chamber is trapezoidal. It has a length of 9 m, the width is 2 m in the northwest and 1.5 m in the southeast. In its original state, it probably had seven wall stones on the north-eastern long side, eight on the south-western, one end stone each on the narrow sides and six cap stones. Four stones on the northeast side, five on the southwest side and the two end stones are still preserved in situ . A fifth stone on the northeast side has tilted outwards. Four capstones are still in place, one at the northwest end and three in the southeast. Of the latter, the innermost one still rests on the wall stones, all other cap stones have fallen into the interior of the chamber. A larger gap between the middle wall stones on the south-west side could represent the entrance, the complex would therefore be regarded as a passage grave.
Grave 2
The grave has a rectangular, north-north-west-south-south-east oriented mound bed with a length of 15 m and a width of 8 m. Numerous stones are still preserved from the enclosure, two of them in situ on the south side, two on the east side and one on the north side. Twelve more stones lie around. The position of the stones gives the impression that the north side was wider than the south side and the barren bed was therefore trapezoidal. The burial chamber originally had eight wall stones on the eastern long side, nine on the western, two end stones and seven cap stones. Almost all of the wall stones are still in situ, only the northern end stone and one stone each on the long sides are missing, another stone on the west side has been dragged outwards. Four cap stones are still on the wall stones, a fifth lies broken inside the chamber.
literature
- Franz Krüger: Megalithic graves in the Bleckede, Dannenberg, Lüneburg and Winsen ad Luhe districts. In: News from Lower Saxony's Prehistory Volume 1, 1927, pp. 12, 14.
- Johannes Heinrich Müller, Jacobus Reimers: Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, pp. 13-14 ( 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. 46-47.