Large stone graves near Ripdorf

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The megalithic graves near Ripdorf were two megalithic tombs from the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Ripdorf , a district of Uelzen in the Uelzen district ( Lower Saxony ). They were destroyed in the 19th century. The graves were southwest of the place. They were documented in the 1840s by Georg Otto Carl von Estorff , but were already destroyed at that time and could therefore not be described in more detail. No information is available on the orientation, dimensions and type of grave. The only thing that emerges from the card signatures is that both plants had a rectangular barren bed .

literature

  • Georg Otto Carl von Estorff : Pagan antiquities of the area of ​​Uelzen in the former Bardengaue (Kingdom of Hanover). Hahn'sche Hof bookstore, Hanover 1846.
  • Michael Geschwinde: The barrows on the Große Heide near Ripdorf in the Uelzen district. Archaeological observations on the burial customs of the late Neolithic and the Bronze Age in the Lüneburg Heath. Göttingen Writings on Prehistory and Early History Vol. 27 2000
  • Johannes Heinrich Müller , Jacobus Reimers : Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 88 ( 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 , p. 75.