Great stone graves near Valthe-Oost

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Great stone graves near Valthe-Oost Hunebed D36, Hunebed D37
The large stone grave D36 near Valthe

The large stone grave D36 near Valthe
Great stone graves near Valthe-Oost (Netherlands)
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Coordinates Valthe-Oost D36 coordinates: 52 ° 50 '23.1 "  N , 6 ° 53' 39.9"  O , Valthe Oost-D37
place Borger-Odoorn , OT Valthe , Drenthe , Netherlands
Emergence 3470 to 2760 BC Chr.
van Giffen no. D36, D37

The megalithic graves near Valthe-Oost are two megalithic tombs of the Neolithic western group of the funnel cup culture in Valthe , a district of Borger-Odoorn in the Dutch province of Drenthe . The graves bear the Van Giffen numbers D36 and D37.

location

The graves are located south of Valthe on the Hunebedweg. Grave D37 is only about 25 m east of D36. 1.7 km west-southwest is the large stone grave Valthe-Zuidwest (D35). Several destroyed graves are also known from this area. 1.9 km west-northwest was the large stone grave Valthe-Valtherveld (D33), 2.3 km south-southwest the large stone grave Weerdinge (D37a) and 2.5 km west-northwest the large stone grave Odoorn-Noorderveld 2 (D32d)

Research history

The existence of the graves was first mentioned on the Hottinger map drawn up between 1788 and 1792. In 1878 the first documentation was made by William Collings Lukis and Henry Dryden . In 1918 Albert Egges van Giffen documented the two systems for his atlas of the Dutch large stone graves. In 1952 restorations took place.

description

Grave D36

The complex is an east-southeast-west-northwest oriented passage grave . A stone enclosure cannot be made out. The burial chamber has a length of 7.9 m. It originally had five pairs of wall stones on the long sides and one end stone each on the narrow sides. The eastern wall stone of the southern long side is missing. Four of the original five capstones still exist. One is outside the chamber. The entrance is located between the second and third wall stones on the southern long side, seen from the east. There was a corridor in front of it, of which only one wall stone has survived.

Grave D37

Grave D37

D37 is an east-south-east-west-north-west oriented passage grave. A stone enclosure cannot be made out. The burial chamber has a length of 11.4 m and a width of 3.7 m. It originally had six pairs of wall stones on the long sides and one end stone each on the narrow sides. One wall stone is missing on each long side. Of the original six capstones, three are still present, all of which are inside the chamber. The easternmost one broke in two. The entrance is located between the second and third wall stones on the southern long side, seen from the east. Upstream gangways were not found. It is unclear whether they originally existed.

literature

  • Jan Albert Bakker : The Dutch Hunebedden. Megalithic Tombs of the Funnel Beaker Culture . International Monographs in Prehistory, Ann Arbor 1992, ISBN 1-87962-102-9 .
  • Jan Albert Bakker: Megalithic Research in the Netherlands, 1547-1911. From 'Giant's Beds' and 'Pillars of Hercules' to accurate investigations. Sidestone Press, Leiden 2010, ISBN 9789088900341 , p. 217 ( online version ).
  • Albert Egges van Giffen : De Hunebedden in Nederland , 3 volumes. Oosthoek, Utrecht 1925.
  • Evert van Ginkel , Sake Jager, Wijnand van der Sanden: Hunebedden. Monuments van een steentijdcultuur. Uniepers, Abcoude 1999, ISBN 978-9068252026 , pp. 182-183.
  • G. de Leeuw: Onze hunebedden. Gids before Drentse hunebedden en de Trechterbekerkultuur . Flint 'Nhoes, Borger 1984.
  • William Collings Lukis : Report on the hunebedden of Drenthe, Netherlands. In: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London. 2nd series. Volume 8, 1878, pp. 47-55 ( online ).
  • Wijnand van der Sanden , Hans Dekker: Gids voor de hunebedden in Drenthe en Groningen . WBooks, Zwolle 2012, ISBN 978-9040007040 .

Web links

Commons : Großsteingrab D36 in Valthe-Oost  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Great stone grave D37 in Valthe-Oost  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anna L. Brindley : The typochronology of TRB West Group pottery. In: Palaeohistoria. Volume 28, 1986, pp. 93-132 ( online ). Annual figures corrected according to Moritz Mennenga : Between Elbe and Ems. The settlements of the funnel beaker culture in northwest Germany (= early monumentality and social differentiation. Volume 13). Habelt, Bonn 2017, ISBN 978-3-7749-4118-2 , p. 93 ( online ).