Great stone grave Hambergen

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The large stone grave Hambergen (also Großsteingrab Heißenbüttel ) was a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Heißenbüttel , a district of Hambergen in the district of Osterholz ( Lower Saxony ). It was destroyed in the 19th century.

location

The grave was in Heißenbüttel “in front of the yard of Baumann Gevert”. The large stone graves near Vollersode , which were also destroyed in the 19th century, were located about 3 km to the north .

description

The complex had a north-east-south-west oriented burial chamber , which according to Johann Karl Wächter had a circumference of 36 feet (approx. 10.5 m) and according to Johannes Heinrich Müller and Jacobus Reimers a length of approx. 6 paces (approx. 4.7 m ) and was about 3 paces (2.3 m) wide. In 1841 Wächter counted four wall stones and a single overlying capstone with a circumference of 25 feet (approx. 7.3 m) and a thickness of 4 feet (approx. 1.2 m). 50 years later, however, Müller and Reimers found six wall stones (maybe Wächter had only counted the stones on the long sides?) And two fragments of capstone. Based on these descriptions, it could have been an enlarged dolmen .

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