Great stone graves near Sottorf
| Great stone graves near Sottorf | |||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 8 '11.3 " N , 10 ° 14' 1.9" E | ||
| place | Amelinghausen , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 687-688 | ||
The large stone graves near Sottorf are three grave systems of the Neolithic funnel cup culture in the district of Sottorf in the municipality of Amelinghausen in the district of Lüneburg ( Lower Saxony ). A fourth grave is destroyed today. Grave 2 bears the Sprockhoff number 687, grave 3 the number 688.
location
Grave 1 is located east of Amelinghausen, about 500 m northeast of Lake Lopau and just under 300 m north of federal road 209 in a forest. Graves 2 and 3 are located a good 700 m east of this on the other side of the road and about 30 m apart. The destroyed fourth grave was 2 km southeast of the two plants on the northern slope of the Timpenberg .
description
The preserved grave 1
The system has a round mound with a diameter of 20 m. The burial chamber has a length of about 3 m and a width of 1.5 m. It originally had two cap stones. The floor was paved with a layer of pebbles. The chamber was blown up in 1949 "at the instigation of a madman". The remains no longer give any clues as to the exact original appearance.
The preserved grave 2
Grave 2 has a flat mound with a length of 13 m. Here lies a north-west-south-east oriented burial chamber, of which eight stones are still present. Of these, however, only one is in situ , which is probably a wall stone on the south-western long side. Ernst Sprockhoff viewed three other stones as wall stones, the remaining four can no longer be assigned. A reconstruction of the original appearance of the complex is not possible due to this poor state of preservation.
The preserved grave 3
Grave 3 has a 0.8 m high mound from which two cap stones protrude. The remaining stones seem to be completely underground, so that statements about the shape of the grave would only be possible after an excavation.
The destroyed grave 4
The fourth grave had a burial chamber with a length of 3.2 m and a width of 1.5 m. It had three cap stones. Findings have clearly dated it to the Neolithic period.
literature
- Gerhard Körner : A large stone grave in the Sottorf field. In: Lüneburg leaves. Volume 10, 1959, p. 139.
- Gerhard Körner, Friedrich Laux : Prehistory in the district of Lüneburg. Museum Association for the Principality of Lüneburg, Lüneburg 1971, pp. 83–84.
- 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. 38.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Sprockhoff: Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3. p. 38.