Heveskesklooster stone grave

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Heveskesklooster stone grave Hunebed G5
The large stone grave G5 at Heveskesklooster

The large stone grave G5 at Heveskesklooster
Great stone grave Heveskesklooster (Netherlands)
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Coordinates 53 ° 20 '9.1 "  N , 6 ° 55' 36.9"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 20 '9.1 "  N , 6 ° 55' 36.9"  E
place Delfzijl , Groningen , Netherlands
Emergence 3470 to 2760 BC Chr.
van Giffen no. G5

The large stone grave Heveskesklooster is a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic western group of the funnel cup culture in Delfzijl in the Dutch province of Groningen . It was founded in 1982 by chance during the archaeological investigation of the mound Heveskesklooster discovered and the Muzeeaquarium implemented in Delfzijl. It is the only known large stone grave in the Netherlands that is not a passage grave , but a dolmen . The grave bears the van Giffen number G5.

location

The site of the large stone grave

The grave was located east of Delfzijl at the Heveskesklooster terp. A monastery of the Order of St. John was located there until the 17th century . In addition to the large stone grave, a stone box was later discovered. Today it is exhibited in the Muzeeaquarium Delfzijl on Zeebadweg.

Research history

Since a nearby factory site was to be expanded, an archaeological investigation of the former monastery site by JW Boersma began in 1982 . The large stone grave was discovered by chance and examined by Jan N. Lanting in 1983 . In 1987 it was moved to the muze aquarium.

description

The facility is a south-southeast-north-north-west oriented dolmen. The burial chamber has a length of 2.7 m. It consists of three pairs of wall stones on the long sides, a capping stone on the northern narrow side and three cap stones. The southern narrow side was left free. The access to the chamber is located here. Due to its small size, the chamber was sometimes referred to as an extended dolmen by various researchers . Due to the number of wall and cap stones, however, the address as large dolmen is correct. There is no stone enclosure. Upon examination, it was found that the chamber had been partially destroyed in the late Neolithic (before 2200 BC).

Finds

During the investigation ceramic shards and flint artifacts of the funnel beaker culture were found.

literature

  • Jan Albert Bakker : A list of the extant and formerly present hunebedden in the Netherlands. In: Palaeohistoria. Volume 30, 1988, pp. 63-72 ( online ).
  • Jan Albert Bakker: The Dutch Hunebedden. Megalithic Tombs of the Funnel Beaker Culture . International Monographs in Prehistory, Ann Arbor 1992, ISBN 1-87962-102-9 .
  • Jan Albert Bakker: Megalithic Research in the Netherlands, 1547-1911. From 'Giant's Beds' and 'Pillars of Hercules' to accurate investigations. Sidestone Press, Leiden 2010, ISBN 9789088900341 , p. 204 ( online version ).
  • Albert Egges van Giffen : De Hunebedden in Nederland , 3 volumes. Oosthoek, Utrecht 1925.
  • Evert van Ginkel , Sake Jager, Wijnand van der Sanden: Hunebedden. Monuments van een steentijdcultuur. Uniepers, Abcoude 1999, ISBN 978-9068252026 , p. 194.
  • G. de Leeuw: Onze hunebedden. Gids before Drentse hunebedden en de Trechterbekerkultuur . Flint 'Nhoes, Borger 1984.
  • Wijnand van der Sanden , Hans Dekker: Gids voor de hunebedden in Drenthe en Groningen . WBooks, Zwolle 2012, ISBN 978-9040007040 .

Web links

Commons : Großsteingrab Heveskesklooster  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anna L. Brindley : The typochronology of TRB West Group pottery. In: Palaeohistoria. Volume 28, 1986, pp. 93-132 ( online ). Annual figures corrected according to Moritz Mennenga : Between Elbe and Ems. The settlements of the funnel beaker culture in northwest Germany (= early monumentality and social differentiation. Volume 13). Habelt, Bonn 2017, ISBN 978-3-7749-4118-2 , p. 93 ( online ).