Great stone grave Kronsgaard
The large stone grave Kronsgaard (also called Smaahus ) was a Neolithic grave near the municipality of Kronsgaard , Geltinger Bucht in the district of Schleswig-Flensburg , Schleswig-Holstein . The megalithic system of the funnel beaker culture (TBK) was created between 3500 and 2800 BC. Chr.
description
The grave was immediately west of the Kronsgaard community at a crossroads. More precise information is only possible thanks to Pastor Jensen's description from 1838. So it was probably a north-south oriented dolmen . The burial mound had a diameter of 30 paces (approx. 22.50 m), a height of 7 feet (approx. 2.15 m) and was framed in a circle by surrounding stones. The burial chamber consisted of five wall stones and two cap stones. The wall stones were divided into two carrier stones on the west and one carrier stone on the east side and a terminal stone in the south. The northern wall stone was found somewhat away from its original location. The chamber was 7 feet (about 2.15 m) long and 2 feet (about 0.65 m) wide. It was wider on the floor than on the ceiling because the wall stones were sloping. Ernst Sprockhoff lists the grave under number 35 in his Atlas of Megalithic Tombs.
See also
literature
- Jakob Röschmann : Prehistory of the Flensburg district . The prehistoric and early historical monuments and finds in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 6. Neumünster 1963, 385.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 1: Schleswig-Holstein . Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966, p. 12.
Coordinates: 54 ° 43 ′ 54.5 ″ N , 9 ° 57 ′ 45 ″ E