Great stone grave in Deinstedt
The large stone grave Deinstedt was a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Deinstedt in the district of Rotenburg (Wümme) ( Lower Saxony ). It was destroyed in the 19th century.
location
The grave was in the field near Deinstedt on a point about 2.5 feet (about 0.75 m) elevated point.
description
The grave was oriented southeast-northwest and at the end of the 19th century only had three wall stones standing in situ . They were each 1.47 m long and protruded about 1 m from the ground. 20 more stones lay around in a mess, individually or in groups. The facility took up an area of 12 paces square. The type of grave can no longer be determined.
There was a single stone or three stones nearby, which may have been the remains of a second grave.
literature
- Johannes Heinrich Müller : Report on antiquities in Hanover. In: Archives of the Association for History and Antiquities in Stade. Volume 4, 1871, p. 363 ( online ).
- Johannes Heinrich Müller, Jacobus Reimers : Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 232 ( 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. 19.
- Johann Karl Wächter : Statistics of the pagan monuments existing in the kingdom of Hanover. Historical Association for Lower Saxony, Hanover 1841, p. 55 ( online ).