Great stone grave Annen

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Great stone grave Annen Hunebed D9
The large stone grave D9 in Annen

The large stone grave D9 in Annen
Great stone grave Annen (Netherlands)
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Coordinates 53 ° 3 '41.2 "  N , 6 ° 42' 56.6"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 3 '41.2 "  N , 6 ° 42' 56.6"  E
place Aa en Hunze , OT Annen , Drenthe , The Netherlands
Emergence 3470 to 2760 BC Chr.
van Giffen no. D9

The large stone grave Annen is a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic western group of the funnel cup culture in Annen , a district of Aa en Hunze in the Dutch province of Drenthe . The grave was documented by Albert Egges van Giffen in 1918 and archaeologically examined and restored in 1952 . It bears the van Giffen number D9.

location

The grave is located in the northern part of the village on a green area on Zuidlaarderweg, southeast of a roundabout. There are several other large stone graves in the vicinity: 1.1 km to the west is the large stone grave Anloo-Noord (D8) and 2.1 m west of the large stone grave Schipborg (D7).

Research history

The grave was first mentioned in 1711 by Ludolf Smids . A drawing from 1769 shows the grave in a state of preservation that largely corresponded to today's. In 1878 the first investigation was carried out by William Collings Lukis and Henry Dryden . The finds made are now in the British Museum . In 1918 Albert Egges van Giffen documented the facility for his atlas of the Dutch megalithic graves. In 1952 an archaeological excavation and a restoration of the grave were carried out, also under the direction of van Giffen. Since 1978 the complex has been a national monument ( Rijksmonument ).

description

The complex is an east-west oriented passage grave , of which only the western half has been preserved. The burial chamber originally had a length of about 7 m and a width of about 2.5 m. It had four wall stones each on the long sides, one end stone each on the narrow sides, four cap stones and a corridor in the middle of the southern long side, consisting of two wall stones and probably a cap stone. Of this, the two western pairs of wall stones, the western end stone and two cap stones are still preserved. A fallen capstone was put back on the wall stones in 1952. The footprints of the wall stones that were not preserved were filled with concrete . A stone enclosure could not be found.

Finds

During his investigation, Van Giffen found over 100 ceramic fragments from the funnel beaker culture , but also some fragments from the end-Neolithic bell beaker culture .

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. 208 ( 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 , p. 168.
  • Jan N. Lanting: De NO-Nederlandse / NW-Duitse Klokbekergroep: culturele achtergrond, typologie van het aardewerk, datering, verspreiding en grafritueel. In: Palaeohistoria. Volume 49/50, 2007/2008 (2008), pp. 259-260 ( online ).
  • 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 Annen  - Collection of pictures, 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 ).
  2. ^ Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed: 45011 te Annen