Great stone grave Barnsen
| Great stone grave Barnsen | |||
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 58 '58 " N , 10 ° 27' 33.9" E | ||
| place | Gerdau , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 795 | ||
The Barnsen large stone grave is a burial site of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near the Barnsen part of the Gerdau municipality in the Uelzen district , Lower Saxony . It bears the Sprockhoff number 795.
location
The grave is located about one kilometer east of Barnsen within a tree-lined area on the southwest corner of the Uelzen airfield .
description
The system has a flat mound of 17.5 m long and 14 m wide. The burial chamber is oriented northeast-southwest. It has a width of 1.3 m and an estimated length of about 9 m. Six wall stones have been preserved: one on the south-western narrow side, three on the north-western long side and two on the south-eastern long side. All are still in their original position. In its original state, the grave may have had more than four pairs of wall stones on the long sides. Only two of the capstones have survived. Both fell inside the chamber.
literature
- 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. 71.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Barnsen stone tomb
- strahlen.org: "Barnsen" stone grave, Gerdau, Uelzen