Large stone graves from Rohstorf
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 10 '53.5 " N , 10 ° 35' 13.6" E | ||
| place | Rohstorf , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 699-701 | ||
The large stone graves of Rohstorf are located near Rohstorf in the municipality of Vastorf in the Lüneburg district in Lower Saxony . They originated between 3500 and 2800 BC. And are megalithic systems of the funnel beaker culture (TBK). Neolithic monuments are an expression of the culture and ideology of Neolithic societies. Their origin and function are considered to be the hallmarks of social development.
location
The three large stone graves are located between the districts of Gifkendorf and Aljarn, 500 meters from the small forest village of Scharnhop, on both sides of the forest path leading to the northeast.
In between these are the remains of other systems, but their destruction has progressed so far that no further determination can be made. About 500 meters north of the stone graves, a large Iron Age urn grave field was excavated around 1887 .
description
Sprockhoff 701
To the east of the path is the rest of a stone chamber with the Sprockhoff no. 701 in an oval rolling stone mound 10 to 12 meters in diameter. The northern keystone and five bearing stones of the badly damaged chamber may still be in situ . A capstone fell into the chamber, a capstone fragment is still there. E. Sprockhoff suspected a chamber with four capstones, i.e. a passage grave or a large dolmen .
The other two plants are to the west of the path.
Sprockhoff 700
About 100 meters to the north, a few meters from the forest path, is the Hünenbett with the Sprockhoff no. 700. Its earth dam is easily identifiable over a length of 40 meters, but its northeast end is unsafe. There are only remnants of the edging stones. There may have been a chamber near the southwest end, but no details can be determined.
During an archaeological investigation in 1887, three additional burials were found in the mound of the mound, which probably date to the Middle Ages.
Sprockhoff 699
The large stone grave with the Sprockhoff no. 699 is about 50 meters west-northwest of the second barren bed in the dense forest. It is the sizable remnant of a long chamber in an irregular oval hill measuring 12 × 17 meters. A total of 13 bearing stones, some of which have fallen over or blown, and two cap stones that have fallen into the chamber have been preserved. In several places traces of an intentional but not executed blasting of the stones can be observed in the form of blast holes. Ernst Sprockhoff suspected a chamber with eight capstones, so here more a passage grave than a large dolmen.
During a follow-up examination in the 1970s, medieval ceramic shards were found in the chamber of this grave, which, however, do not provide sufficient evidence that this facility was also used for subsequent burials.
See also
literature
- Dietmar Gehrke: Medieval reburials from a large stone grave near Rohstorf, Lüneburg district - remarks on the relative chronology of the medieval grave fields in the eastern Lüneburg district. In: The customer. NF Volume 62, 2011, pp. 41-62 ( online ).
- Hery A. Lauer: Archaeological Walks Ostniedersachsen Verlag Hery A. Lauer, Angerstein 1979, ISBN 3-924538-00-X , p. 80.
- 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. 42.