Large stone grave Drouwenerveld

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Large stone grave Drouwenerveld Hunebed D26
The large stone grave D26 near Drouwen

The large stone grave D26 near Drouwen
Large stone grave Drouwenerveld (Netherlands)
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Coordinates 52 ° 56 '35.5 "  N , 6 ° 46' 28.4"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 56 '35.5 "  N , 6 ° 46' 28.4"  E
place Borger-Odoorn , OT Drouwen , Drenthe , Netherlands
Emergence 3300 to 3075 BC Chr.
van Giffen no. D26

The large stone grave Drouwenerveld is a megalithic tomb of the Neolithic western group of the funnel cup culture near Drouwen , a district of Borger-Odoorn in the Dutch province of Drenthe . The tomb was archaeologically examined between 1968 and 1970 . It bears the van Giffen number D26.

location

The grave is located southeast of Drouwen on the border between a field and a wooded area. There are numerous other large stone graves in the vicinity: 1.2 km northeast are the two large stone graves at Drouwen (D19 and D20), 1.7 km east the five large stone graves at Bronneger (D21-D25), 2.1 km southeast Large stone grave Borger (D27) and 3.1 km southeast of the two large stone graves near Buinen (D28 and D29).

Research history

The existence of large stone graves near Drouwen was first mentioned in 1711 by Ludolf Smids . Another mention of the grave was made in 1812 by Nicolaus Westendorp . In 1878 the first investigation was carried out by William Collings Lukis and Henry Dryden . The finds made are now in the British Museum . In 1918 Albert Egges van Giffen documented the facility for his atlas of the Dutch megalithic graves. In 1964 and 1965 the remains of the stone enclosure were uncovered. Between 1968 and 1970, the burial chamber was archaeologically examined under the direction of Albert Egges van Giffen, Jan Albert Bakker and W. Glasbergen and then restored. The grave in Drouwenerveld is the last large stone grave in the Netherlands to be completely excavated. Since 1993 the facility has been a national monument ( Rijksmonument ).

description

The complex is a north-east-south-west oriented passage grave . About half of the stones of the oval surround have been preserved, and the stand holes of others have been identified. The burial chamber has a length of 12 m and a width of about 3.8 m. It consists of six pairs of wall stones on the long sides and one end stone each on the narrow sides. Five of the original six capstones have been preserved, the second from the northeast is missing. The access to the chamber is in the middle of the southern long side. In front of this is a corridor made of two pairs of wall stones.

Finds

During the investigation of the grave between 1968 and 1970, the broken pieces of 157 vessels of the funnel beaker culture were found. The pottery dates from the late stage 2 or early stage 3 to the early stage 5 of the typological system of the Western Beaker Group established by Anna Brindley . This corresponds roughly to the period 3300-3075 BC. Other ceramic finds date from the late Neolithic and the Iron Age .

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. 213 ( 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. 178.
  • G. de Leeuw: Onze hunebedden. Gids before Drentse hunebedden en de Trechterbekerkultuur . Flint 'Nhoes, Borger 1984.
  • William Collings Lukis : Report on the hunebedden of Drenthe, Netherlands. In: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London. 2nd series. Volume 8, 1878, pp. 47-55 ( online ).
  • 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 Drouwenerveld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed: 467484 te Drouwen
  2. ^ Anna L. Brindley: The typochronology of TRB West Group pottery. In: Palaeohistoria. Volume 28, 1986, pp. 93-132 ( online ).
  3. ^ 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 ).