Large stone graves near Seedorf (Boitze)
| Large stone graves near Seedorf (Boitze) | |||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 9 '38.6 " N , 10 ° 42' 45.6" E | ||
| place | Boitze , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 718-719 | ||
The megalithic graves near Seedorf are two megalithic graves of the funnel cup culture (TBK) in the district of Seedorf in the district of Lüneburg in Lower Saxony, which belongs to the municipality of Boitze . They originated in the Neolithic between 3500 and 2800 BC. And have the Sprockhoff numbers 718 and 719.
location
The large stone graves are located in the rising arable land on the southern slope of the Brandberg . Grave 1 is located in an island-like group of trees, 200 meters south of the connecting road between the two districts of Seedorf and Vindorf. About 120 meters southwest of the complex are the remains of the destroyed grave 2 with the Sprockhoff no. 719. There are numerous other large stone graves in the vicinity: the large stone graves at Lemgrabe are 1.6 km southwest and the Ahndorf large stone grave 1.7 km south .
description
Grave 1
The rather handsome, roughly north-south-oriented complex consists of a giant bed up to 1.5 meters high and about 30 meters long , of which only a few stones are left in situ , others are scattered around. The mound has flowed apart a little and should originally have been only 25 meters long and 6 meters wide. The small chamber, described by Franz Krüger in 1927 as a “wild mess”, is clearly recognizable. Its bearing stones are slightly inclined inwards, a rolled cap stone lies next to it.
As an excavation by Sprockhoff in 1950 was able to show, the chamber is a not very common, extended dolmen (transverse lying) with a corridor, positioned transversely in a giant bed . Sprockhoff found the threshold stone at the eastern end of the chamber and the remains of the access in the form of a pavement that led to between the eastern border. The chamber is 2.1 meters long and 1.3 meters wide. Scattered corpse burn and shards of at least two vessels were found inside the chamber .
Grave 2
Grave 2 has a north-east-south-west oriented burial chamber with a length of 4 meters and a width of 1.5 meters. According to Ernst Sprockhoff's reconstruction, it should have had four wall stones in its original state on the north-western long side, three on the south-eastern long side, one end stone each on the narrow sides and three cap stones. Only the south-east end stone and the two adjoining wall stones on the north-west side remain in situ. On the opposite long side there are two more wall stones, but at least one of them is bent outwards. Two cap stones fell inside the chamber. Several other stones east and northwest of the chamber can no longer be clearly assigned.
See also
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, p. 33.
- Friedrich Laux : Neolithic cremations from the Lüneburg Heath. In: Die Kunde NF 24 1973, p. 77.
- Johannes Heinrich Müller, Jacobus Reimers: Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 140 ( PDF; 25.0 MB ).
- Hery A. Lauer: Archaeological walks in Eastern Lower Saxony. Göttingen 1979, ISBN 3-922541-08-9
- 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. 47.