Great stone graves near Noord-Sleen

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Great stone graves near Noord-Sleen Hunebed D50, Hunebed D51
Noord-Sleen-Noord, Noord-Sleen-Zuid
The large stone grave D50 in Noord-Sleen

The large stone grave D50 in Noord-Sleen
Great stone graves near Noord-Sleen (Netherlands)
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Coordinates Noord-Sleen D50 coordinates: 52 ° 47 ′ 45.9 "  N , 6 ° 47 ′ 13.8"  E , Noord-Sleen D51
place Coevorden , OT Noord-Sleen , Drenthe , The Netherlands
Emergence 3470 to 2760 BC Chr.
van Giffen no. D50, D51

The megalithic graves near Noord-Sleen are two megalithic tombs of the Neolithic western group of the funnel-shaped culture in Noord-Sleen , a district of Coevorden in the Dutch province of Drenthe . The graves bear the Van Giffen numbers D50 and D51.

location

The two graves are located northwest of Noord-Sleen on both sides of the Hunebedenweg. Grave D51 is 150 m south-southwest of D50. 2.8 km north-northwest of D50 is the large stone grave " De Papeloze Kerk " (D49) near Schoonoord .

Research history

The two graves were first mentioned on the hotting map created between 1788 and 1792. In 1918 Albert Egges van Giffen documented the two systems for his atlas of the Dutch large stone graves. Restorations took place in 1962 and 1998. The facilities have been national monuments ( Rijksmonumenten ) since 1973 .

description

Grave D50

The complex is an east-west oriented passage grave . The oval enclosure with 24 stones is largely preserved. The burial chamber has a length of 17 m and a width of 4.4 m. It has eight pairs of wall stones on the long sides and one end stone each on the narrow sides. Of the original eight cap stones, the third from the east is missing. The entrance is in the middle of the southern long side. In front of it was a corridor made of two pairs of wall stones. Only one of these wall stones is still preserved, the footprints of the other stones were poured with concrete in 1962 .

Grave D51

Grave D51

D51 is an east-northeast-west-southwest oriented passage grave. The burial chamber has a length of 11.6 m. It originally had seven pairs of wall stones on the long sides, one end stone each on the narrow sides and probably seven cap stones. One wall stone is missing. Only the westernmost and the two easternmost of the capstones have survived. The entrance is in the middle of the southern long side. In front of it was a corridor made of two pairs of wall stones. One of the wall stones is missing. The footprints of the two missing wall stones in the chamber and the corridor were poured with concrete in 1962.

Finds

During the restoration of 1962, ceramic shards of vessels from the funnel beaker culture and the end-Neolithic bell beaker culture were found.

literature

  • Jan Albert Bakker : The Dutch Hunebedden. Megalithic Tombs of the Funnel Beaker Culture . International Monographs in Prehistory, Ann Arbor 1992, ISBN 1-87962-102-9 .
  • Jan Albert Bakker: Megalithic Research in the Netherlands, 1547-1911. From 'Giant's Beds' and 'Pillars of Hercules' to accurate investigations. Sidestone Press, Leiden 2010, ISBN 9789088900341 , p. 224 ( online version ).
  • Jan Albert Bakker: Augustus 1856: George ten Berge tekent de hunebedden bij Schoonoord, Noord-Sleen en Rolde. In: Nieuwe Drentse Volksalmanak. Volume 129, 2012, pp. 211-223.
  • Albert Egges van Giffen : De Hunebedden in Nederland , 3 volumes. Oosthoek, Utrecht 1925.
  • Evert van Ginkel , Sake Jager, Wijnand van der Sanden: Hunebedden. Monuments van een steentijdcultuur. Uniepers, Abcoude 1999, ISBN 978-9068252026 , p. 190.
  • Jan N. Lanting: De NO-Nederlandse / NW-Duitse Klokbekergroep: culturele achtergrond, typologie van het aardewerk, datering, verspreiding en grafritueel. In: Palaeohistoria. Volume 49/50, 2007/2008 (2008), pp. 275-276 ( online ).
  • G. de Leeuw: Onze hunebedden. Gids before Drentse hunebedden en de Trechterbekerkultuur . Flint 'Nhoes, Borger 1984.
  • Wijnand van der Sanden , Hans Dekker: Gids voor de hunebedden in Drenthe en Groningen . WBooks, Zwolle 2012, ISBN 978-9040007040 .
  • Nynke de Vries: Excavating the Elite? Social stratification based on cremated remains in the Dutch hunebedden. Master thesis, Groningen 2015 ( online ).

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anna L. Brindley : The typochronology of TRB West Group pottery. In: Palaeohistoria. Volume 28, 1986, pp. 93-132 ( online ). Annual figures corrected according to Moritz Mennenga : Between Elbe and Ems. The settlements of the funnel beaker culture in northwest Germany (= early monumentality and social differentiation. Volume 13). Habelt, Bonn 2017, ISBN 978-3-7749-4118-2 , p. 93 ( online ).
  2. ^ Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed: 46000 te Sleen
  3. ^ Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed: 46001 te Sleen