Great stone grave Bahnsen

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The large stone grave Bahnsen was a megalithic burial complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Bahnsen , a district of Suderburg in the Uelzen district ( Lower Saxony ). It was destroyed in the 19th century. The grave was west of the place. It was documented in the 1840s by Georg Otto Carl von Estorff , but not described in detail. No information is available on the orientation, dimensions and type of grave. The signature of the card only shows that it had a rectangular barren bed . There were two burial mounds nearby .

literature

  • Georg Otto Carl von Estorff : Pagan antiquities of the area of ​​Uelzen in the former Bardengaue (Kingdom of Hanover). Hahn'sche Hof bookstore, Hanover 1846.
  • 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. 74.