Great stone grave Balloo

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Great stone grave Balloo Hunebed D16
The large stone grave D16 in Balloo

The large stone grave D16 in Balloo
Great stone grave Balloo (Netherlands)
Red pog.svg
Coordinates 53 ° 0 '1.5 "  N , 6 ° 37' 8.4"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 0 '1.5 "  N , 6 ° 37' 8.4"  E
place Aa en Hunze , OT Balloo , Drenthe , The Netherlands
Emergence 3470 to 2760 BC Chr.
van Giffen no. D16

The large stone grave Balloo is a megalithic burial complex of the Neolithic western group of the funnel cup culture in Balloo , a district of Aa en Hunze in the Dutch province of Drenthe . The grave bears the van Giffen number D16.

location

The grave is located northwest of Balloo in a meadow on the east side of a dirt road. There are several other large stone graves in the immediate vicinity: 2.3 km east-southeast are the two large stone graves at Rolde (D17 and D18), 2.5 km north is the large stone grave Loon (D15).

Research history

The grave was first mentioned on French maps drawn up in 1811-13. In 1878 the first documentation was made by William Collings Lukis and Henry Dryden . In 1918 Albert Egges van Giffen documented the facility for his atlas of the Dutch megalithic graves. Restorations were carried out in 1952 and 1954. In 1978 all cap stones were put back on the wall stones. Since 1993 the facility has been a national monument ( Rijksmonument ).

description

The complex is a fairly large east-north-east-west-south-west oriented passage grave . Only small remains of the stone enclosure are preserved (one stone in the north and one in the northeast). The burial chamber has a length of 15.3 m and a width of about 3.9 m. It has nine wall stones on the northern and ten on the southern long side, one end stone each on the narrow sides and nine cap stones. The sixth capstone, seen from the west, has several bowls on its upper side . In the middle of the southern long side there is a corridor that consists of two wall stones and a cap stone.

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. 211 ( 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. 172.
  • 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 .
  • Nynke de Vries: Excavating the Elite? Social stratification based on cremated remains in the Dutch hunebedden. Master thesis, Groningen 2015 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Großsteingrab Balloo  - 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: 464140 te Balloo