Great stone graves near Thaden
| Great stone graves near Thaden | |||
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| Coordinates | Thaden 1 , Thaden 2 , Thaden 3 , Thaden 4 | ||
| place | Thaden , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 177-178 | ||
The megalithic graves near Thaden are a group of four megalithic tombs of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Thaden in the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district in Schleswig-Holstein . Graves 1 and 2 bear the Sprockhoff numbers 177 and 178.
location
The graves are located southeast of Thaden on Jarsdorfer Straße in a wooded area. Graves 1 and 2 are right next to each other, their mounds touching one another. Grave 3 is a little northeast of this and grave 4 is east of grave 3.
description
Grave 1
This system has a round mound with a diameter of 18 m. Seven stones are still preserved from the enclosure in the south. The largely completely preserved burial chamber is an east-west oriented passage grave with a trapezoidal floor plan. The length is 3.3 m and the width 1.4 m in the east and 1.7 m in the west. There are three wall stones on the northern and four on the southern long side, one end stone each on the narrow sides and two of the original three cap stones. The western end stone has a length of 2.1 m and a width of 1.1 m. The entrance to the chamber is located between the first and second wall stones on the south side, seen from the east. In front of this is a corridor made of a pair of wall stones. The corridor capstone has been dislocated and smashed. The corridor has a length of 2.1 m and a width of about 0.6 m.
Grave 2
This system has a round mound with a diameter of 15 m. In the middle, a capstone can be seen in a churned-up pit and a wall stone at its southern end. The capstone has a length of 2.6 m and a width of at least 1 m. Since the rest of the chamber is still completely covered with earth, its dimensions and type cannot be determined with certainty. According to Ernst Sprockhoff, it could be a dolmen .
Grave 3
This complex has a heavily destroyed, north-west-south-east oriented rectangular barren bed with a length of 25 m and a width between 4 m and 5 m. All the surrounding stones are missing. A chamber is not recognizable, according to Sprockhoff it could have been a dolmen.
Grave 4
This complex has a heavily destroyed, north-west-south-east oriented rectangular barren bed with a length of about 60 m and a width of about 7 m. All the surrounding stones are missing. A chamber is not recognizable; according to Sprockhoff, it could also have been a dolmen.
literature
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 1: Schleswig-Holstein. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966, pp. 47–48.