Large stone grave Hünensteine
| Large stone grave Hünensteine Stone in the men's sand Hünensteine alleviate |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 50 '24.2 " N , 7 ° 45' 23.3" E | ||
| place | Lindern , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 962 | ||
The large stone grave Hünensteine (also called Stein im Herrensand or Hünensteine Lindern ) is a Neolithic passage grave with the Sprockhoff number. 962. It originated between 3500 and 2800 BC. BC as a plant of the funnel beaker culture (TBK). The Hünensteine are located in a forest west of Lindern in the Cloppenburg district in Lower Saxony .
It is a northwest-southeast facing chamber measuring 5.9 × 1.7 meters with two preserved capstones. The larger one measures 2.5 × 1.6 × 1.5 meters. The ten bearing stones are all preserved in situ or only slightly offset. Remnants of hills and stones are missing.
More locations
The Schlingsteine megalithic complex is also located in the village .
See also
- Nordic megalithic architecture
- The complex is on the street of the megalithic culture .
literature
- Anette Bußmann : Stone Age witnesses. Travel to the prehistory of northwest Germany. Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89995-619-1 , pp. 78-79.
- Jörg Eckert: In: Archaeological monuments between Weser and Ems . Isensee 2000, ISBN 3-89598-752-2 , p. 220.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Edited from the estate by Gerhard Körner. Rudolf Habelt (on commission), Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , p. 140.
Web links
Commons : Großsteingrab Hünensteine - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
