Big stone grave Bovenau
| Big stone grave Bovenau | |||
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 The large stone grave in Bovenau |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 19 '55.2 " N , 9 ° 49' 15.2" E | ||
| place | Bovenau , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 156 | ||
The large stone grave Bovenau is a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic funnel beaker culture near Bovenau in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde in Schleswig-Holstein . The grave bears the Sprockhoff number 156 and the site number Bovenau LA 130. It was archaeologically examined by Gottfried Schäfer and H. Thomsen in 1959 and reconstructed in 2001.
location
The grave is on the northwestern outskirts of Bovenau on a meadow. There are several other large stone graves in the vicinity : 1.6 km south-southwest is the Ostfeld large stone grave and 2.7 km south-southwest the Augustenhof stone tomb . The destroyed large stone grave Osterrade was located 2.4 km to the northeast .
description
The complex has an east-west oriented oval mound with a length of about 27 m, a width between 18 m and 20 m and a height between 0.6 m and 1 m. The burial chamber is an east-west oriented passage grave with an oval floor plan. Only the eastern half has been preserved. The width of the chamber is almost 2 m. Five wall stones are still preserved. The gaps between the wall stones were filled with dry stone masonry made of quartzite slabs . The access to the chamber was located between the western and the central preserved wall stone on the south side. Between the two stones was a 0.5 m wide threshold stone. The entrance is preceded by a 1.4 m long and 0.7 m wide corridor, which has a wide corridor on its west side and two narrow corridor stones on its east side. Here, too, the gaps between the stones were originally filled with quartzite slabs. Transition chamber and had a plaster of flint - crus which was m thick in the passage and 0.1 m in the chamber 0.2. In the upper area of the pavement, cracked pieces of flint and charcoal were found. The outside of the chamber was originally encased in a packing made from a mixture of clay and flint gravel and rolling stones .
Only a few additions were found. The funnel beaker culture is a fragment of a thin-nosed flint ax. A beaker and an ax of the individual grave culture (2800–2300 BC) and a flint dagger date from the end of the Neolithic .
literature
- Hans Hingst : Great stone graves in Schleswig-Holstein. In: Offa. Volume 42, 1985, pp. 57-112.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 1: Schleswig-Holstein. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966, p. 42.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Bovenau Stone Grave