Great stone grave mountains

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Great stone grave mountains De Smäe (The Forge)
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Large stone grave mountains (Lower Saxony)
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Coordinates 52 ° 38 '23 "  N , 7 ° 41' 19"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 38 '23 "  N , 7 ° 41' 19"  E
place Berge , Lower Saxony , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.
Sprockhoff no. 882

The large stone grave of Berge (also called De Smäe ( The Forge )) is one between 3500 and 2800 BC. A plant of the Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture (TBK) near the community of Berge in the district of Osnabrück , Lower Saxony . It bears the Sprockhoff number 882.

location

The grave is located about four kilometers northwest of Berge in a field that is surrounded by the Börsteler Forest . There is said to have been a second large stone grave nearby, but it has now been completely destroyed.

description

The complex consists of an almost east-west oriented burial chamber. The two end stones on the narrow sides, the westernmost pair of wall stones on the long sides, the easternmost wall stone on the northern long side and another wall stone on the southern long side are still preserved in situ . Another stone on each of the two long sides fell over. A capstone measuring 2.2 m × 2.0 m × 0.8 m rests on the three western stones. Another capstone has fallen inside the chamber. In its original state, the grave probably had six pairs of wall stones on the long sides and as many cap stones. The access could have been in the middle of the southern long side, which means that the complex could be addressed as a possible passage grave.

literature

  • H. Friese vom Rabenstein: Heidenpötte, burial mounds and large stone graves in the Bersenbrück district. A contribution to the prehistoric settlement of the Bersenbrück district. In: Heimat yesterday and today. Announcements from the district home association Bersenbrück e. V. Volume 3, 1965, p. 48.
  • Rolf Gensen: The prehistory and early history of the Bersenbrück district. Unprinted dissertation, Marburg 1961, p. 5.
  • Johannes Heinrich Müller, Jacobus Reimers: Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 264 ( PDF; 25.0 MB ).
  • 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. 112.

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