Large stone grave wood
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 14 ′ 27 " N , 10 ° 34 ′ 56.7" E | ||
| place | Reinstorf , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | - | ||
The large stone grave Holzen is a largely destroyed grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near the district of Holzen in the district of Lüneburg , Lower Saxony, belonging to the municipality of Reinstorf . It was described by Ernst Sprockhoff in his Atlas of Germany's Megalithic Tombs, but was not given a number.
location
The remains of the grave are located 500 m northeast of the center of Holzen.
description
The grave consists of a destroyed mound bed in which in 1955 the remains of an east-west oriented burial chamber with a length of 6.5 m and a width of 2 m were excavated. The wall and cap stones had all been removed, only the pavement of the chamber remained. An examination of the barren bed did not take place.
literature
- G. Körner: A large stone grave near Holzen in the Lüneburg district. In: Lüneburg leaves. Volume 7/8, 1957, p. 139.
- 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. 40.