Amelinghausen large stone grave
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 6 '52.6 " N , 10 ° 14' 37.9" E | ||
| place | Amelinghausen , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 689 | ||
The large stone grave in Amelinghausen is a burial complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near the municipality of Amelinghausen in the district of Lüneburg , Lower Saxony . It bears the Sprockhoff number 689.
location
The grave is located 2.4 km southeast of Amelinghausen, a few meters south of a forest path that leads to the Betzendorfer district of Tellmer. About 1 km to the east are the megalithic graves near Diersbüttel on the same path .
description
The facility is very badly damaged. It has a flat, round mound with a diameter of 10 m. The burial chamber is oriented roughly east-west. There are only three stones left, which do not allow any conclusions to be drawn about the original appearance of the burial chamber.
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. 52.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , pp. 38-39.