Great stone graves near Rolde

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Great stone graves near Rolde Hunebed D17, Hunebed D18
The large stone grave D17 in Rolde

The large stone grave D17 in Rolde
Great stone graves near Rolde (Netherlands)
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Coordinates Rolde D17 coordinates: 52 ° 59 '24.4 "  N , 6 ° 38' 57.8"  E , Rolde D18
place Aa en Hunze , OT Rolde , Drenthe , The Netherlands
Emergence 3470 to 2760 BC Chr.
van Giffen no. D17, D18

The megalithic graves near Rolde are two megalithic tombs of the Neolithic western group of the funnel cup culture in Rolde , a district of Aa en Hunze in the Dutch province of Drenthe . The graves bear the Van Giffen numbers D17 and D18.

location

The graves are located on the northern outskirts of Rolde, directly west of the cemetery. Grave D18 is only about 60 m south of D17. The large stone grave Balloo (D16) is located 2.3 km west-northwest .

Research history

A. Schonhovius Batavus mentioned a large stone grave near Rolde as early as 1547, which was known under the name "Duvels Kut". However, it is unclear which of the two graves he was referring to. In 1706, S. Hofstede and Kymmel carried out an excavation at grave D17. Among other things, they allegedly found a blue pot with gold-plated stripes. Before 1818 ceramic shards were found in a non-scientific excavation in grave D18. In 1878 it was documented by William Collings Lukis and Henry Dryden . In 1918 Albert Egges van Giffen documented the two systems for his atlas of the Dutch large stone graves. Restorations took place in 1873, 1931, 1936, 1954, 1965 and 1993. In 1936 and 1964 a search was made for possible stand holes in the surrounding stones, but this was unsuccessful. The facilities have been national monuments ( Rijksmonumenten ) since 1992 .

description

Grave D17

The complex is an east-southeast-west-northwest oriented passage grave . The burial chamber has a length of 13.9 m and a width of 3.8 m. It has seven wall stones on the northern and eight on the southern long side, another stone is in front of the south side. The narrow sides each have a capping stone. All eight capstones are still preserved, but only the easternmost one still rests on the wall stones. The remaining capstones are either only on one side or have fallen completely into the chamber. In the middle of the southern long side there is a corridor that consists of two wall stones.

Grave D18

Grave D18

D18 is also an east-southeast-west-northwest oriented passage grave. It's very similar to D17, but a little smaller. The burial chamber has a length of 12.6 m and a width of 3.5 m. It has seven pairs of wall stones on the long sides, one end stone each on the narrow sides and seven cap stones, all of which rest on the wall stones. In front of the fourth and fifth wall stones, seen from the west, there is a corridor that consists of two wall stones.

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. 211 ( 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 , pp. 172-173.
  • M. Goslinga, Wijnand van der Sanden: De oudste foto's van de hunebedden van Rolde. In: Waardeel. Volume 32 (2), 2012, pp. 24-30 ( online ).
  • G. de Leeuw: Onze hunebedden. Gids before Drentse hunebedden en de Trechterbekerkultuur . Flint 'Nhoes, Borger 1984.
  • William Collings Lukis : Report on the hunebedden of Drenthe, Netherlands. In: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London. 2nd series. Volume 8, 1878, pp. 47-55 ( online ).
  • Wijnand van der Sanden : Reuzenstenen op de es. De Hunebedden van Rolde. Waanders, Zwolle 2007, ISBN 978-90-400-8367-9 .
  • Wijnand van der Sanden: Twee unieke glasnegatieven. In: Waardeel. Volume 27 (4), 2007, pp. 28-31 ( online ).
  • 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

Commons : Great stone graves near Rolde  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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: 420185 te Rolde