Passage grave of Dalum
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 32 '58.7 " N , 7 ° 44' 16.4" E | ||
| place | Dalum , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 887 | ||
The passage grave of Dalum is a Neolithic passage grave , with the Sprockhoff no. 887. It originated between 3500 and 2800 BC. And is a megalithic system of the funnel beaker culture (TBK).
location
The facility is located 5.7 kilometers south of Bippen , just a little southeast of the hamlet of Dalum (on Stellungsweg, to Klein Bokern, in the field), in the joint municipality of Fürstenau in the Osnabrück district in Lower Saxony .
description
Several of the bearing stones of the north-west-south-east oriented, about 15; = meter long Emsland Chamber , as well as almost all the stones of the oval, tightly fitting border are missing. Seven of the original eight cap stones of the chamber, which can be reconstructed to a width of 1.8 meters in places, are still there, but mostly collapsed. The supporting stones in the access area are as far beyond the phalanx that are unavailable from other plants of the passage grave known -type trapezioden chamber areas form but irregular niches.
Numerous prehistoric sites are known in the Maiburg State Forest, especially in the south and east of the complex. East of Dalum, the remains of three large stone graves are mentioned in older literature. Sprockhoff referred to these stones as natural collections. The so-called Hexentanzplatz is now also known as the “Maiburg 2” large stone grave.
See also
literature
- W. Schlüter: The great stone graves of the Osnabrück area. In: Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments 44, Mainz 1979.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , pp. 114-115.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Dalum Great Stone Tomb
- strahlen.org: Dalum large stone grave near Bippen
- steinzeugen.de: Dalum stone grave
- cruptorix.nl: Dalum's megalithic tomb