Great stone grave Brekling
| Great stone grave Brekling | |||
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 34 '53.5 " N , 9 ° 36' 9.5" E | ||
| place | Nübel OT Brekling , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 42 | ||
The large stone grave Brekling was a megalithic burial complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Brekling , a district of Nübel in the Schleswig-Flensburg district in Schleswig-Holstein . The grave bears the Sprockhoff number 42. It was destroyed in 1894, but was previously documented by Wilhelm Splieth .
location
The grave was located northeast of Brekling in a wooded area.
description
The complex had a north-west-south-east oriented burial chamber , which was an enlarged dolmen with a length of 2 m and a width of 0.8 m. In 1894 there were still two pairs of wall stones on the long sides, a capping stone on the northwestern and a half-height entry stone on the southeastern narrow side. The capstones were already missing. In 1960 Ernst Sprockhoff could only find remnants of the mound.
literature
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 1: Schleswig-Holstein. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966, p. 16.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Brekling Stone Grave