Great stone grave in Großenhain
| Great stone grave in Großenhain Dansenstein | |||
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 The great stone grave in Großenhain |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 34 '55.5 " N , 8 ° 58' 1.7" E | ||
| place | Grossenhain ( Geestland ), Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 617 | ||
The Großsteingrab Großenhain (also called Dansenstein ) is a burial site of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near the district of Großenhain in the district of Cuxhaven , Lower Saxony, which belongs to the city of Geestland . It bears the Sprockhoff number 617.
location
The grave is located about 2 km north of Grossenhain on a geest sloping towards the Langen Moor .
description
The grave is badly damaged and its original appearance can no longer be reconstructed. The burial chamber is oriented approximately northwest-southeast. Only two wall stones on the southwest long side and one on the northwest long side are preserved in situ . A large capstone with a length of 2.6 m, a width of 1.7 m and a thickness of 0.7 m rests on these three stones. Sprockhoff recorded nine more stones lying around when he was taken, one of which has a number of blast holes.
See also
literature
- Johannes Heinrich Müller: Report on antiquities in Hanover. In: Archives of the Association for History and Antiquities in Stade. Volume 4, 1871, p. 359.
- H. Müller-Brauel: The prehistoric monuments of the district Lehe. In: Annual Report of the Men of the Morning Star. Volume 16, 1913/14 (1914), pp. 61-62.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , p. 7.
- Ernst Sprockhoff, Benne Eide Siebs: The large stone graves of the Elb-Weser angle. Heimatbund der Männer vom Morgenstern, Bremerhaven 1957.
- Friedrich Tewes : The stone graves of the province of Hanover. An introduction to your customers and the main types and forms. Hanover 1898, pp. 30-31.
- Johann Karl Wächter : Statistics of the pagan monuments existing in the kingdom of Hanover. Historical Association for Lower Saxony, Hanover 1841, p. 70.
