Great stone graves at Tosterglope
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 11 '58.4 " N , 10 ° 49' 8" E | ||
| place | Tosterglope , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 713-714 | ||
The large stone graves at Tosterglope are two grave complexes of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near the municipality of Tosterglope in the district of Lüneburg ( Lower Saxony ). Grave 1 bears the Sprockhoff number 714, grave 2 the number 713. A third grave has been destroyed today.
location
Grave 1 is 1 km south of Tosterglope. Grave 2 is located 1.5 km northwest of Tosterglope and 2.1 km northwest of grave 2 in a wooded area near a path. Not far to the northeast was the destroyed third grave. There are numerous other large stone graves in the vicinity: 1.3 km southeast of grave 1 are the large stone graves near Nahrendorf and 1.8 km north of grave 2 the large stone graves near Barskamp .
description
Grave 1
The complex has a north-south oriented burial chamber in which there are numerous stones, mostly preserved only in fragments. A precise distinction between wall and cap stones and thus an exact reconstruction of the original appearance of the chamber is hardly possible.
Grave 2
Grave 2 is an exceptionally large, chamberless giant bed with a length of 80 m. It is oriented northwest-southeast and tapers slightly to the northwest. The width is 4 m in the southeast and 2 m in the northwest. The mound only reaches a height between 0.2 m and 0.4 m. When Johann Karl Wächter took the picture around 1841, the enclosure still consisted of 169 stones. In 1967 Ernst Sprockhoff could only make twelve of them. The locations of the remaining stones can still be recognized by a ditch that surrounds the entire hill. Excavations were carried out on this site twice: in 1908 by Carl Schuchhardt and in 1912 by Michael Martin Lienau . However, neither did provide any special information.
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. 41, Fig. 20.
- Michael Martin Lienau: About megalithic graves and other grave forms in the Lüneburg area. Kabitzsch, Würzburg 1914, 11-12, plate. III, V.
- Johannes Heinrich Müller, Jacobus Reimers: Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, 139 ( PDF; 25.0 MB ).
- Carl Schuchhardt : Old Europe in its culture and style development. Strasbourg 1919, p. 95.
- 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. 93.
- Johann Karl Wächter : Statistics of the pagan monuments existing in the kingdom of Hanover. Historical Association for Lower Saxony, Hanover 1841, p. 26.