Great stone grave in Emmen-Noord

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Great stone grave in Emmen-Noord Hunebed D41
The large stone grave D41 in Emmen

The large stone grave D41 in Emmen
Great stone grave Emmen-Noord (Netherlands)
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Coordinates 52 ° 47 '59.7 "  N , 6 ° 53' 8.3"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 47 '59.7 "  N , 6 ° 53' 8.3"  E
place Emmen , Drenthe , Netherlands
Emergence 3470 to 2760 BC Chr.
van Giffen no. D41

The large stone grave Emmen-Noord is a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic western group of the funnel cup culture in Emmen in the Dutch province of Drenthe . It bears the Van Giffen number D41.

location

The grave is located on the northwestern outskirts of Emmen on Odoornerweg. There are numerous other large stone graves in the vicinity. 750 m south is the large stone grave Emmen-Schimmeres (D43), 1.1 km west-southwest the large stone grave Westenesch-Noord (D42), 1.2 km north the three large stone graves at Emmerveld (D38-D40), 1.6 km southwest Great stone grave Westenesch (D44) and 1.8 km east-southeast the great stone grave Emmerdennen (D45). 2.2 km north was the destroyed large stone grave Weerdinge (D37a).

Research history

The grave was discovered in 1809 by a stone seeker and examined by Johannes Hofstede , who removed the mound and documented the burial chamber exceptionally well for the time. In 1878 it was documented by William Collings Lukis and Henry Dryden . In 1918 Albert Egges van Giffen documented the facility for his atlas of the Dutch megalithic graves. In 1960 van Giffen carried out an investigation together with Poul Kjaerum . Since 1983 the facility has been a national monument ( Rijksmonument ).

description

The complex is an east-north-east-west-south-west oriented passage grave . The burial chamber was originally completely covered by a mound and encased with rolling stones. There was no stone enclosure. The chamber has a length of 5.9 m and a width of 2.8 m. It consists of four pairs of wall stones on the long sides, one end stone each on the narrow sides and four cap stones. The spaces between the wall stones were originally filled with dry masonry. The chamber had a pavement made of two layers of stone with a layer of find between them. The entrance to the chamber is located between the first and second wall stones on the southern long side, seen from the west. Van Giffen and Kjaerum were able to make out a threshold stone here in 1960. There were never any upstream gangways.

Finds

During the investigation of 1809, numerous ceramic finds were made, especially between the two stone pavements. Three vessels (a terrine , a flask with a collar and a small bowl ) were completely preserved, and there were 14 or 15 broken vessels. Finds of stone or flint tools were not mentioned. Only the three complete vessels were saved. They are now in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden .

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 , pp. 105-108, 219 ( 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. 185.
  • 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 .

Web links

Commons : Großsteingrab Emmen-Noord  - 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: 45372 te Emmen