Great stone grave Exloo-Noord

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Great stone grave Exloo-Noord Hunebed D30
The large stone grave D30 at Exloo

The large stone grave D30 at Exloo
Great stone grave Exloo-Noord (Netherlands)
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Coordinates 52 ° 53 '29.7 "  N , 6 ° 50' 45"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 53 '29.7 "  N , 6 ° 50' 45"  E
place Borger-Odoorn , OT Exloo , Drenthe , The Netherlands
Emergence 3470 to 2760 BC Chr.
van Giffen no. D30

The large stone grave Exloo-Noord is a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic western group of the funnel beaker culture near Exloo , a district of Borger-Odoorn in the Dutch province of Drenthe . It bears the Van Giffen number D30.

location

The grave is located northwest of Exloo in the Exlooër bos forest . 3.1 km south-southeast is the large stone grave Exloo-Zuid (D31).

Research history

The existence of the grave was first mentioned in 1818 by R. Boelken. In 1878 the first documentation was made by William Collings Lukis and Henry Dryden . In 1918 Albert Egges van Giffen documented the site for his Atlas of the Dutch Great Stone Graves, carried out an archaeological excavation and a subsequent restoration. Another investigation was carried out in 1985 by Jan N. Lanting . In 1992 the grave was restored again. Since 1993 the facility has been a national monument ( Rijksmonument ).

description

The complex is a south-southeast-north-northwest oriented passage grave . The mound was created in two phases, the more recent of which can only be dated to the Early Bronze Age (2000–1600 BC). A stone enclosure could not be found. The burial chamber has a length of 7.3 m and a width of 3.4 m. It consists of four pairs of wall stones on the long sides and one end stone each on the narrow sides. Of the original four cap stones, three have been preserved, the northernmost one is missing. The access to the chamber is in the middle of the eastern long side. In front of this is a corridor made of two wall stones.

Finds

Van Giffen was able to find human skeletal remains during his examination. The additions included axes and arrowheads made of flint as well as shards of around 80 vessels from the funnel beaker culture. Vessel fragments from the end-Neolithic individual grave culture were also recovered. According to Jan N. Lanting, finds of corpse fire can be assigned to the end-Neolithic bell - cup culture.

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. 214-215 ( 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. 180.
  • 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. 274-275 ( 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 .

Web links

Commons : Großsteingrab Exloo-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: 467493 te Odoorn