Great stone graves near Wersen
| Great stone graves near Wersen Sloop stones, small sloop stones, large sloop stones | |||
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 Großsteingrab Wersen 2 ("Big Sloop Stones") |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 19 '21.6 " N , 7 ° 54' 37.8" E | ||
| place | Lotte (Westphalia) , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3250 to 2860 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 983-984 | ||
The large stone graves near Wersen are a group of formerly three grave systems of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near the district of Wersen in the Steinfurt district , North Rhine-Westphalia, belonging to the municipality of Lotte (Westphalia) . Only two of these graves still exist, the third was destroyed in the 19th century. The two systems that have been preserved bear the Sprockhoff numbers 983 and 984. Grave 1 (no. 983) is also known under the name of small sloop stones , grave 2 (no. 984) as large sloop stones or sloop stones .
location
Grave 1 is located about one kilometer northwest of the Halen farmers. Grave 2 is two kilometers north-northwest of Wersen. The third grave was located 500 m southwest of this. A good 500 m northwest of grave 2 is the large stone grave Osterbeck .
Research history
In 2014 the large sloop stones were re-measured. In 2015, two rubble mounds located next to the burial chamber were examined which contained excavated material from the chamber.
description
Grave 1
The complex has an elongated mound and is almost east-west oriented. At the western end of the hill is a single stone, but it cannot be said for sure whether it represents the rest of an enclosure. The burial chamber has a length of 7 m and a width of 1.5 m. It still has nine wall stones: one end stone each on the narrow sides and four stones on the northern and three on the southern long side. Except for one stone on the northern long side and the eastern end stone, all are still in situ . Originally there were probably five pairs of wall stones on the long sides. The capstones are partly outside the chamber, partly they have fallen inside.
Grave 2
The sloop stones consist of a long burial chamber, which is surrounded by a stone enclosure at a very close distance. A pile of hills cannot be made out. The system is roughly east-west oriented. The burial chamber probably belongs to the type of passage graves . It is 18.5 m long and 1.8 m wide in the middle. On the northern long side there are still ten wall stones, eight of which are in situ. The originally second wall stone seen from the west is missing. The southern long side still has 13 wall stones, seven of them in situ. Five stones are tipped into the chamber, another one out. Of the eleven preserved capstones, two are still in their original position, the rest of them fell into the chamber or were dragged outside. A stone in front of the southern long side can possibly be seen as the capstone of the corridor. Only remains of the enclosure are preserved. It has a length of 23.5 m and a width of 7.5 m.
Finds
During the 2015 excavation, ceramic shards of the funnel beaker culture as well as unspecific flint artifacts and small slabs of sandstone and limestone were found. The latter were part of the original chamber plaster. Surprisingly, even larger amounts of human bones were preserved. The pottery dates from levels 4–6 of the typological system of the Western Beaker Group established by Anna Brindley . This corresponds to the period 3250–2860 BC. Chr. A radiocarbon dating of bones gave similar values 3350-2850 BC cal. .
literature
- Leo Klinke: More than just stones - the virtual reconstruction of the Great Sloopsteene. In: Archeology in Westphalia-Lippe. 2017 (2018), pp. 239–242 ( online ).
- Johannes Heinrich Müller , Jacobus Reimers : Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, 284–285 ( PDF; 25.0 MB ).
- Kerstin Schierhold : On a megalithic scavenger hunt in the Tecklenburger Land - news about Sloopsteenen and Co. In: Archeology in Westphalia-Lippe. 2014 (2015), pp. 227-229 ( online ).
- Kerstin Schierhold: Large Sloopsteene revisited - first results of new investigations. In: Archeology in Westphalia-Lippe. 2015 (2016), pp. 44–47 ( online ).
- Kerstin Schierhold: The big Sloopsteene near Lotte-Wersen, Steinfurt district (= megalithic graves in Westphalia. Volume 1). Antiquities Commission for Westphalia, Münster 2016 ( online ).
- 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. 150.
Web links
- Westerkappeln community - The Sloop stones in Westerkappeln
- Large stone grave "Kleine Sloopsteine", Halen near Westerkappeln
- Large stone grave "Große Sloopsteine", Westerkappeln
- The small sloop stones on Großsteingräber.de
- The big sloop stones on Großsteingräber.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kerstin Schierhold: The great Sloopsteene near Lotte-Wersen, Steinfurt district. 2016, pp. 14–22.
- ↑ Kerstin Schierhold: The great Sloopsteene near Lotte-Wersen, Steinfurt district. 2016, pp. 22–26.
- ^ 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 ).
- ↑ Kerstin Schierhold: The great Sloopsteene near Lotte-Wersen, Steinfurt district. 2016, p. 27.