Great stone grave in Hepstedt

The large stone grave Hepstedt was a megalithic grave system of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Hepstedt in the district of Rotenburg (Wümme) ( Lower Saxony ). It was cut through in the 1870s when the church path from Hepstedt to Kirchtimke was laid out and later completely removed. The complex had a huge bed with a large burial chamber ; However, no information is available on the orientation, dimensions and type of grave.

literature

• Johannes Heinrich Müller , Jacobus Reimers : Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Schulze, Hannover 1893, p. 226 ( 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. 19.