Great stone grave Diever

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Great stone grave Diever Hunebed D52
The large stone grave D52 near Diever

The large stone grave D52 near Diever
Great stone grave Diever (Netherlands)
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Coordinates 52 ° 51 '32.5 "  N , 6 ° 19' 52.2"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 51 '32.5 "  N , 6 ° 19' 52.2"  E
place Westerveld , OT Diever , Drenthe , The Netherlands
Emergence 3470 to 2760 BC Chr.
van Giffen no. D52

The Diever large stone grave is a megalithic tomb of the Neolithic western group of the funnel beaker culture near Diever , a district of Westerveld in the Dutch province of Drenthe . It bears the van Giffen number D52.

location

The grave is located northeast of Diever on Groningerweg. A stone box grave is located 430 m to the northeast . The Wapse large stone grave , which was destroyed in 1735, was located 3 km to the west-northwest .

Research history

The existence of the tomb was first mentioned in the 17th century. It is shown on a French map made between 1811 and 1813. In 1818 it was visited by SJ van Royen, who reported that a large human hand was engraved in one of the capstones (which probably came from his imagination, since such a structure cannot be seen on any of the stones). In 1918 Albert Egges van Giffen documented the facility for his atlas of the Dutch megalithic graves. Restorations took place in 1953 and 1995. Since 1992 the complex has been a national monument ( Rijksmonument ).

description

The complex is an east-north-east-west-south-west oriented passage grave . The burial chamber has a length of 14.5 m and a width of about 4.8 m. It consists of seven pairs of wall stones on the long sides and one end stone each on the narrow sides. Of the original seven capstones, six have been preserved, the second from the east is missing. The access to the chamber is located between the third and fourth wall stones on the southern long side, seen from the west. Originally there were two gang stones in front of it, of which only the western one has been preserved. The standing hole of the missing gang stone was filled with concrete . There is no stone enclosure.

literature

  • Jan Albert Bakker : The Dutch Hunebedden. Megalithic Tombs of the Funnel Beaker Culture . International Monographs in Prehistory, Ann Arbor 1992, ISBN 1-87962-102-9 .
  • Jan Albert Bakker: Megalithic Research in the Netherlands, 1547-1911. From 'Giant's Beds' and 'Pillars of Hercules' to accurate investigations. Sidestone Press, Leiden 2010, ISBN 9789088900341 , p. 224 ( online version ).
  • Albert Egges van Giffen : De Hunebedden in Nederland , 3 volumes. Oosthoek, Utrecht 1925.
  • Evert van Ginkel , Sake Jager, Wijnand van der Sanden: Hunebedden. Monuments van een steentijdcultuur. Uniepers, Abcoude 1999, ISBN 978-9068252026 , p. 191.
  • G. de Leeuw: Onze hunebedden. Gids before Drentse hunebedden en de Trechterbekerkultuur . Flint 'Nhoes, Borger 1984.
  • Wijnand van der Sanden , Hans Dekker: Gids voor de hunebedden in Drenthe en Groningen . WBooks, Zwolle 2012, ISBN 978-9040007040 .
  • Nynke de Vries: Excavating the Elite? Social stratification based on cremated remains in the Dutch hunebedden. Master thesis, Groningen 2015 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Großsteingrab Diever  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anna L. Brindley : The typochronology of TRB West Group pottery. In: Palaeohistoria. Volume 28, 1986, pp. 93-132 ( online ). Annual figures corrected according to Moritz Mennenga : Between Elbe and Ems. The settlements of the funnel beaker culture in northwest Germany (= early monumentality and social differentiation. Volume 13). Habelt, Bonn 2017, ISBN 978-3-7749-4118-2 , p. 93 ( online ).
  2. ^ Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed: 421089 te Diever