Great stone grave Eexter received

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Great stone grave Eexter received Hunebed D14
The large stone grave D14 near Eext

The large stone grave D14 near Eext
Great stone grave Eexterhalte (Netherlands)
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Coordinates 53 ° 0 '6.3 "  N , 6 ° 43' 49.8"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 0 '6.3 "  N , 6 ° 43' 49.8"  E
place Aa en Hunze , OT Eext , Drenthe , The Netherlands
Emergence 3470 to 2760 BC Chr.
van Giffen no. D14

The large stone grave Eexterhalte is a megalithic burial complex of the Neolithic western group of the funnel cup culture near Eext , a district of Aa en Hunze in the Dutch province of Drenthe . The grave bears the Van Giffen number D14.

location

The grave is located south of Eext on a meadow east of the Stationsstraat. It is accessible to tourists through a parking lot and an information board. There are several other large stone graves in the vicinity: 1.1 m north-north-west is the stepped grave of Eext (D13) and 1.5 km north-north-west is the large stone grave Eext-Es (D12).

Research history

The grave was first mentioned in 1756 by Johannes van Lier . Cornelis van Noorde and Petrus Camper made drawings of the grave in 1756 and 1769 respectively. In 1871 the facility was improperly restored. In 1878 an 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 1927 van Giffen carried out an archaeological dig. Further restorations were carried out in 1960, 1965 and 1996. Since 1978 the complex has been a national monument ( Rijksmonument ).

description

The complex is an approximately east-west oriented passage grave . Eight stones are still preserved from the enclosure. The mound was largely removed in 1871. A stone enclosure could not be found. The burial chamber has a slightly oval floor plan. It has a length of 18 m and a width of 4.5 m. It consists of nine pairs of wall stones on the long sides and one end stone each on the narrow sides. Of the original nine cap stones, six still rest on the wall stones. There are also two fragments that have blast holes and are located inside the chamber. The entrance to the burial chamber was located between the fourth and fifth wall stones on the southern long side, seen from the west. In front of this is a corridor that originally consisted of two pairs of wall stones. One gangstone is missing, its standing hole is filled with concrete .

Finds

According to Johannes van Lier, a vessel with a Roman coin was found on the outside of an enclosure stone in 1750 . Van Giffen was able to recover numerous ceramic vessels from the funnel beaker culture during his investigation. A publication of his finds is currently being prepared by Anna Brindley . Furthermore, shards of a late Neolithic bell beaker were recovered.

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. 210 ( 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. 171.
  • Jan N. Lanting: De NO-Nederlandse / NW-Duitse Klokbekergroep: culturele achtergrond, typologie van het aardewerk, datering, verspreiding en grafritueel. In: Palaeohistoria. Volume 49/50, 2007/2008 (2008), pp. 263-264 ( online ).
  • 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 Eexter received  - 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: 45029 te Eext