Great stone grave Eext-Es

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Great stone grave Eext-Es Hunebed D12
The large stone grave D12 at Eext

The large stone grave D12 at Eext
Great stone grave Eext-Es (Netherlands)
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Coordinates 53 ° 0 '53.7 "  N , 6 ° 43' 25.7"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 0 '53.7 "  N , 6 ° 43' 25.7"  E
place Aa en Hunze , OT Eext , Drenthe , The Netherlands
Emergence 3470 to 2760 BC Chr.
van Giffen no. D12

The large stone grave Eext-Es is a megalithic tomb of the Neolithic western group of the funnel beaker culture near Eext , a district of Aa en Hunze in the Dutch province of Drenthe . The grave bears the Van Giffen number D12.

location

The grave is located west of Eext on a meadow and can be reached via a dirt road. There are several other large stone graves in the vicinity: 450 m to the south-southeast is the stepped grave of Eext (D13), 1.5 km south-south-east the large stone grave Eexterhalte (D14) and 2 km north-northwest the large stone grave Anloo-Zuid (D11).

Research history

The grave was first mentioned and examined by Johannes van Lier in 1756 . In 1918 Albert Egges van Giffen documented the facility for his atlas of the Dutch megalithic graves. In 1952 the grave was archaeologically examined and restored by van Giffen . Since 1978 the complex has been a national monument ( Rijksmonument ).

description

The complex is a poorly preserved south-south-east-west-north-west oriented passage grave . A stone enclosure could not be found. The burial chamber has a length of 6.8 m and a width of 2.8 m. It originally had four pairs of wall stones on the long sides, one end stone each on the narrow sides and four cap stones. Only the southern end stone, the adjoining three wall stones on the eastern long side and the three cap stones resting on it are left. The entrance to the burial chamber was located between the first and second wall stone on the western long side, seen from the south. In front of this was a corridor made of two wall stones that have not been preserved. The footprints of the missing wall and gangway stones are filled with concrete .

Finds

Van Lier already found several ceramic vessels in the grave, which he described as "urns in an inverted position". He made a drawing of a collar bottle .

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. 208 ( 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. 170.
  • 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 .

Web links

Commons : Großsteingrab Eext-Es  - 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: 45025 te Eext