Large stone grave Exloo-Zuid

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Large stone grave Exloo-Zuid Hunebed D31
The large stone grave D31 at Exloo

The large stone grave D31 at Exloo
Great stone grave Exloo-Zuid (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. D31

The large stone grave Exloo-Zuid is a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic western group of the funnel cup culture near Exloo , a district of Borger-Odoorn in the Dutch province of Drenthe . It bears the Van Giffen number D31.

location

The grave is located south of Exloo in the Hunzebos forest . There are numerous other large stone graves in the vicinity. 2.4 km to the west-southwest is the Odoorn stone grave (D32), 2.8 km to the south the Valthe-West stone grave (D34) and 3.1 km to the north-northwest is the Exloo-Noord stone grave (D30). Several destroyed graves are also known from this area. 1.4 km to the southwest was the Odoorn-Noorderveld 1 (D32c) large stone grave, 2.1 km to the south-southwest was the Odoorn-Noorderveld 2 (D32d) stone grave and 2.7 km to the south was the Valthe-Valtherveld (D33) stone grave .

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 facility for his atlas of the Dutch megalithic graves. In 1952 the facility was restored. During a smaller investigation by van Giffen in 1965, the standing holes in the gangue stones were discovered. Since 2004 the complex has been a national monument ( Rijksmonument ).

description

The complex is a poorly preserved east-south-east-west-north-west oriented passage grave . The oval mound can still be seen well. A stone enclosure could not be found. The burial chamber has a length of 7 m and a width of 3.3 m. It originally consisted of four pairs of wall stones on the long sides, one end stone each on the narrow sides and four cap stones. The two western stones on the southern long side are missing. Only one of the capstones remains, which is located inside the chamber. As with most large stone graves in the Netherlands, access to the chamber was not in the middle of the south side, but at the east end between the first and second wall stone. This was originally a corridor made of two wall stones. The footprints of the missing wall and gangway stones are filled with concrete .

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. 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.
  • 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-Zuid  - 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: 527157 te Exloo