Big stone grave Bockhorn

The large stone grave Bockhorn was a megalithic burial complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Bockhorn , a district of Walsrode in the Heidekreis district ( Lower Saxony ). It was destroyed in the 19th century. The grave was to the west of Prohlschen Hof. Little information is available about its original appearance. It is said to have had a burial chamber "of considerable size". One of the capstones was 8 feet long .

literature

• Johannes Heinrich Müller , Jacobus Reimers : Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 71 ( 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. 81.