Great stone graves near Steden
| Great stone graves near Steden | |||
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 The large stone grave Steden 2 is a station on the Seemoor environmental and prehistory trail |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 21 '45 " N , 8 ° 53' 6.7" E | ||
| place | Holste , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 627-628 | ||
The large stone graves at Steden are three between 3500 and 2800 BC. Resulting Chr. Megalithic the Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture (TBK) in the municipality Holste belonging district Cities in Osterholz ( Lower Saxony ). Grave 1 bears the Sprockhoff number 627, grave 2 the number 628.
location
The three graves are located east of Steden in a wooded area. Grave 2 is 230 m east of grave 1, grave 3 450 m south. Graves 1 and 2 are part of the Seemoor prehistory trail near Steden , which also includes a barrow field and a shell stone .
description
Grave 1
The facility has a flat, round hill bed. There is a north-east-south-west oriented burial chamber, which, according to Ernst Sprockhoff, is a passage grave . It has a length of 5.5 m and a width of 1.5 m. In its original state, it had four pairs of wall stones on the long sides, one end stone each on the narrow sides and four cap stones. The south-western end stone, three wall stones on the north-western side and the two middle wall stones on the south-eastern long side are still in situ . The first stone on the northwest side, seen from the northeast, is tilted inward. The remaining wall stones are missing. The three remaining capstones fell into the interior of the chamber, with the middle one still resting on a wall stone. The entrance to the burial chamber seems to be in the middle of the south-eastern long side.
Grave 2
Grave 2 also has a flat, round mound. The west-east oriented burial chamber, which is a passage grave, is 6.5 m long and 1.5 m wide. In its original state it had four pairs of wall stones on the long sides, one end stone each on the long sides, four cap stones and a corridor on the middle of the south side, which consisted of two pairs of wall stones and two cap stones. When Ernst Sprockhoff took up the grave in 1967, almost all the wall stones were still there, only one stone in the corridor was missing. The closing stones and the two western wall stone pairs of the chamber were still in situ, the four eastern wall stones were slightly displaced. The cap stones, however, were almost completely missing. Only a fragment of the eastern capstone lay inside the chamber.
In 1975 Mamoun Fansa carried out an excavation on this site. He found a pavement and remnants of spandrel masonry in the chamber. In front of the entrance he found remains of fire pits and crushed ceramics.
Grave 3
The third grave is very poorly preserved. It has a round mound, in the middle of which there is a deep hollow. In this there is still a single stone with a blast hole.
See also
literature
- Mamoun Fansa : The large stone grave of Steden, Gem. Holsten, Ldkr. Osterholz-Scharmbeck. In: Archaeological Communications from Northwest Germany. Volume 10, 1987, pp. 7-16.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , pp. 11-12.
Web links
- Large stone grave "Steden 1", Steden near Hambergen
- Large stone grave "Steden 2", Steden near Hambergen
- Large stone grave "Steden 3", Steden near Hambergen