Big stone grave Heinbockel
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 The large stone grave Heinbockel |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 34 ′ 19.5 " N , 9 ° 19 ′ 56.7" E | ||
| place | Heinbockel , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 656 | ||
The Heinbockel large stone grave is a grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture in the area of the community of Heinbockel in the Stade district , Lower Saxony . It bears the Sprockhoff number 656.
location
The grave is located in the village of Heinbockel, on the eastern edge of the Kötnerende street, roughly at the point where the Im Buschberge street branches off to the west. 540 m to the northeast is a burial mound , also directly in the village .
description
Only the remainder of a north-east-south-west oriented burial chamber remains of the complex. Its width is 1.5 m, the original length can no longer be determined. The south-western end stone and the adjoining pair of wall stones on the long sides are still in their original positions. A capstone that slipped to the southwest was put back on the wall stones in 1966.
See also
literature
- A. Cassau: A megalithic grave in Heinbockel, Krs. Stade. In: Quarterly newspaper of the Stader Geschichts- und Heimatverein. Volume 7, 1930, p. 6.
- Johannes Heinrich Müller, Jacobus Reimers: Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 164 ( PDF; 25.0 MB ).
- 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. 22.
