Large stone grave Kochendorf
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 28 '18.1 " N , 9 ° 46' 4.2" E | ||
| place | Windeby OT Kochendorf , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
The large stone grave Kochendorf was a megalithic burial complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Kochendorf , a district of Windeby in the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district in Schleswig-Holstein . It bears the site number LA 21 and was archaeologically examined in 1972 by J. Frank and Gottfried Schäfer .
location
The grave was in a field south of Kochendorf. There were originally other large stone graves in the vicinity : The preserved large stone grave Windeby is located about 800 m to the south . The destroyed large stone grave Osterby was located 1.3 km south-southwest .
description
The complex had an east-west oriented mound bed with a length of about 65 m and a width between 4 m and 5 m. The mound was made up of slightly humus sand. From the enclosure only individual stone slabs and fragments of blasted enclosing stones could be identified. In the middle of the bed was the burial chamber . It was an enlarged dolmen that was built in a 0.6 m deep pit. The length was 2.2 m and the width 1.2 m. The stones of the chamber were already completely missing from the investigation, but their footprints were still clearly visible. The chamber originally consisted of two pairs of wall stones on the long sides and two end stones on the narrow sides. The eastern end stone was smaller than the western one and only took up two thirds of the narrow side, leaving access to the southeast corner free. The gaps between the wall stones were originally filled with dry stone masonry made of quartzite slabs, some of which were still found. Remains of a chamber casing made of flint - Grus interspersed clay were found. The chamber plaster consisted of a lower layer of pebbles and an upper, 5–10 cm thick layer of cracked flint. A humus backfill followed.
Long human bones and a jaw as well as a flint blade and some ceramic shards were found on the flint layer. Further flint blades and fragments as well as decorated and undecorated ceramic shards come from the filling layer. At the edge of the megalithic bed, approximately in front of the entrance to the chamber, there were decorated and undecorated pottery shards, a cone-shaped piece of pottery, a fragment of a baking plate , cracked flint, fragments of white-fired flint utensils, five chisels , a flat ax , a fragment of a cut ax and a cross-edged arrowhead found.
literature
- Hans Hingst : Great stone graves in Schleswig-Holstein. In: Offa. Volume 42, 1985, p. 76.
- Gottfried Schäfer: The investigation of a giant bed in the Kochendorf district in 1972/73. In: Yearbook of the home community of the Eckernförde district. Volume 31, 1973, pp. 135-139.
- Gottfried Schäfer: A giant bed near Kochendorf, Windeby municipality, district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde. In: Offa. Volume 31, 1974, pp. 136-137.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Kochendorf Langbett