Large stone graves near Nahrendorf
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 10 '4.9 " N , 10 ° 48' 25.7" E | ||
| place | Nahrendorf , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 722-723 | ||
The large stone graves near Nahrendorf are two grave complexes of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near the community of Nahrendorf in the district of Lüneburg ( Lower Saxony ). They have the Sprockhoff numbers 722 and 723.
location
Grave 1 is about 1 km southwest of the center of Nahrendorf, grave 2 is 1.5 km north of the village and 2.5 km north-northeast of grave 1.
description
Grave 1
The complex has a north-south oriented burial chamber with a length of 8 m and a width of 1.5 m. According to Ernst Sprockhoff, it is a large dolmen , which in its original state had six wall stones on the eastern and seven on the southern long side, one end stone each on the narrow sides and five cap stones. On the western long side, seen from the south, the first, third, sixth and seventh wall stones are still in situ , the second has tipped over inwards and the fourth outwards. The northern capstone is still in its original position. The two northernmost wall stones are still in situ on the east side, and there is another one at the south end. The other stones could still be in the ground. The capstones are all still there, but only the northern one is still in its original position. The southernmost was illegally evacuated in 1925 for the construction of a war memorial , but could be brought back and placed on the wall stones again. The remaining three capstones are inside the chamber, one of them was blown up.
Grave 2
Grave 2 has a north-south orientated barren bed with a length of 20 m and a width of between 7 m and 8 m. The mound still reaches a height between 0.6 m and 1 m. The stone enclosure is largely completely preserved on the long sides, but most of the stones have fallen outwards. The two narrow sides have major disruptions. The burial chamber lies in the middle of the barren bed, slightly shifted to the north. Sprockhoff assumed with some uncertainty that it could be an ancient dolmen , of which the southern and eastern wall stones are still in situ. The single capstone lies inside the chamber. There are numerous bowls on its top .
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. 16, 18.
- Johannes Heinrich Müller, Jacobus Reimers: Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, pp. 7, 9 ( 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. 48-49.