Great stone grave emmer it
| Great stone grave emmer it Hunebed D43a | |||
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 47 '34.6 " N , 6 ° 53' 14.4" E | ||
| place | Emmen , Drenthe , Netherlands | ||
| Emergence | 3470 to 3075 BC Chr. | ||
| van Giffen no. | D43a | ||
The large stone grave Emmer it was a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic western group of the funnel cup culture in Emmen in the Dutch province of Drenthe . It was destroyed between 1869 and 1871. His remains were rediscovered in 1968 and examined in 1984. The grave bears the van Giffen number D43a.
location
The grave was located west of Emmen, south of the still preserved large stone grave Emmen-Schimmeres (D43). There are numerous other large stone graves in the vicinity. to the north are the large stone grave Emmen-Noord (D41) and the three large stone graves at Emmerveld (D38 – D40), west-northwest the large stone grave Westenesch-Noord (D42), west-southwest the large stone grave Westenesch (D44) and east the large stone grave Emmerdennen (D45).
Research history
The facility was first mentioned in 1819 by L. Willinge. Leonhardt Johannes Friedrich Janssen made a drawing in 1847. The grave was probably demolished between 1869 and 1871. His stones may have been used for the restoration of the nearby grave D43 during this period. In 1968 the remains of D43a were rediscovered by Jan Evert Musch and archaeologically examined in 1984 under the direction of Jan N. Lanting .
description
The complex was probably an aisle grave . When Janssen was taken, three pairs of wall stones on the long sides, a capping stone and two cap stones were still preserved from the burial chamber . The chamber was about 3.8 m long.
Finds
In the course of the demolition work, three almost complete ceramic vessels and individual fragments were found in the grave and handed over to the Drents Museum in Emmen in 1871. Two of these vessels can be assigned to the Neolithic Age. During Lanting's excavation in 1984, over 5500 sherds were found, from which 114 vessels could be reconstructed. Of these, at least 89 belong to the funnel beaker culture. They date to the levels 1–5 of the typological system established by Anna Brindley for the Western Beaker Group. This corresponds to the period 3470–3075 BC. Chr.
literature
- Jan Albert Bakker : A list of the extant and formerly present hunebedden in the Netherlands. In: Palaeohistoria. Volume 30, 1988, pp. 63-72 ( online ).
- 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. 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. 197.
- Leonhardt Johannes Friedrich Janssen : Drentsche Outheden. Kemink en Zoon, Utrecht 1848 ( online ).
- Nynke de Vries: Excavating the Elite? Social stratification based on cremated remains in the Dutch hunebedden. Master thesis, Groningen 2015 ( online ).
Web links
- hunebeddeninfo.nl: D43a / Emmen (Emmer es), gemeente Emmen
Individual evidence
- ^ 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 ).