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Great stone grave Hearst
Great stone grave Hörst (Schleswig-Holstein)
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Coordinates 54 ° 32 '43 "  N , 9 ° 50' 5"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 32 '43 "  N , 9 ° 50' 5"  E
place Rieseby OT Hörst , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.
Sprockhoff no. 57

The large stone grave Hörst is a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Hörst , a district of Rieseby in the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district in Schleswig-Holstein . The grave bears the Sprockhoff number 57. It was archaeologically examined by Carl Rothmann after its discovery in 1936 and then covered again. The system is not visible above ground today.

location

The grave is located east of Hörst on a hilltop in a field. There are several other large stone graves in the vicinity : 1.9 km to the northwest are the large stone graves near Büstorf . The destroyed large stone grave Norby was located 2.3 km west-southwest .

description

The complex has a north-south oriented burial chamber , which can be addressed as an extended dolmen . It has a length of 2.3 m, a width between 1.06 m and 1.2 m and a height of 1.05 m. There are three wall stones on the long sides, a large end stone on the southern and a half-height entry stone on the northern narrow side. The wall stones on the long sides are not paired, but slightly offset from one another. The cap stones are missing. The gaps between the wall stones are filled with smaller stones. The interior of the chamber had been ransacked by grave robbers. Rothmann could make out the remains of the patch, which consists of quartzite slabs and flint - Grus existed. The lower floor was burnt reddish in places. The only surviving grave object was a dolmen bottle discovered in the northeast corner of the chamber .

literature

  • Ekkehard Aner : The stone chambers of Hörst, Albersdorf and Wittenborn. In: Offa. Volume 9, 1951, pp. 2-10.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 1: Schleswig-Holstein. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966, p. 20.
  • Carl Rothmann : In: News sheet for German prehistory. Volume 14, 1938, p. 9.

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