Great stone grave in Gasteren

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Great stone grave in Gasteren Hunebed D10
The large stone grave D10 in Gasteren

The large stone grave D10 in Gasteren
Great stone grave in Gasteren (Netherlands)
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Coordinates 53 ° 2 '32.6 "  N , 6 ° 39' 28.9"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 2 '32.6 "  N , 6 ° 39' 28.9"  E
place Aa en Hunze , OT Gasteren , Drenthe , The Netherlands
Emergence 3470 to 2760 BC Chr.
van Giffen no. D10

The large stone grave Gasteren is a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic western group of the funnel beaker culture in Gasteren , a district of Aa en Hunze in the Dutch province of Drenthe . The grave bears the van Giffen number D10.

location

The grave is north of Gasteren on a heather . There are several other large stone graves in the vicinity: 2.7 km to the northeast there is the large stone grave Schipborg (D7) and 3.4 km northeast of the large stone grave Anloo-Noord (D8).

Research history

The grave was first mentioned in 1694 by M. Bolhuis. The first restoration took place between 1869 and 1878. Several stones were moved. 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. Further restorations took place in 1952 and 1996. Since 1978 the complex has been a national monument ( Rijksmonument ).

description

The complex has an east-southeast-west-northwest oriented burial chamber with a length of about 6.7 m and a width of about 3.1 m. Originally it probably consisted of four pairs of wall stones on the long sides, one end stone each on the narrow sides and four wall stones. From 1918 Van Giffen was able to identify the four wall stones on the north and three on the south long side, the two end stones and two fallen cap stones. The exact type of grave is unknown. Perhaps, like most large stone graves in the Netherlands, it is a passage grave ; However, due to the poor state of preservation of the southern long side, it was no longer possible to determine whether a corridor had originally been located here. A stone enclosure could not be found.

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. 208 ( 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. 169.
  • 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 Gasteren  - 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: 45015 te Gasteren