Great stone grave loon

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Great stone grave loon Hunebed D15
The large stone grave D15 in Loon

The large stone grave D15 in Loon
Large stone grave Loon (Netherlands)
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Coordinates 53 ° 1 '22 "  N , 6 ° 36' 47.2"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 1 '22 "  N , 6 ° 36' 47.2"  E
place Assen , OT Loon , Drenthe , The Netherlands
Emergence 3470 to 2760 BC Chr.
van Giffen no. D15

The large stone grave Loon is a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic western group of the funnel beaker culture in Loon , a district of Assen in the Dutch province of Drenthe . The grave bears the van Giffen number D15.

location

The grave is located north of Loon at the confluence of a dirt road with Heirweg. There are several other large stone graves in the vicinity: 2.5 km south is the large stone grave Balloo (D16) and 3.7 km northeast the large stone grave Gasteren (D10).

Research history

The grave was first mentioned in 1654 by A. van Slichtenhorst. In 1809 an excavation was carried out by Johannes Hofstede . The facility was restored for the first time in 1870. In 1878 it was documented by William Collings Lukis and Henry Dryden . In 1918 Albert Egges van Giffen documented the facility for his atlas of the Dutch megalithic graves. In 1952 the grave was examined archaeologically and then restored again. Further restorations took place in 1965 and 1993. In 1974 during a robbery excavation in the entrance area of ​​the grave objects were found which had been deposited several centuries after the construction of the grave by members of the end-Neolithic bell - cup culture (2600-2200 BC). Since 1992 the complex has been a national monument ( Rijksmonument ).

description

The complex is an east-southeast-west-northwest oriented passage grave. The oval stone enclosure is still well preserved. Of the original 23 stones, 18. The mound was largely removed during the restoration in 1870. The burial chamber has a length of 9.6 m and a width of about 3.6 m. It consists of five pairs of wall stones on the long sides, one end stone each on the narrow sides and five cap stones. Four cap stones are still on the wall stones, the middle one lies broken in the chamber. The entrance to the chamber is located between the second and third wall stones on the southern long side, seen from the east. In front of this is a corridor made of two pairs of wall stones and a capstone.

Finds

During the robbery excavation in 1974, two bell beakers and a small piece of copper or bronze with a length of 4.5 cm and a width of 3.5 cm were found in the entrance area of ​​the facility . These objects are now in the Drents Museum .

literature

  • 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 , pp. 210-211 ( 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. 171.
  • Jan N. Lanting: De NO-Nederlandse / NW-Duitse Klokbekergroep: culturele achtergrond, typologie van het aardewerk, datering, verspreiding en grafritueel. In: Palaeohistoria. Volume 49/50, 2007/2008 (2008), p. 264 ( online ).
  • G. de Leeuw: Onze hunebedden. Gids before Drentse hunebedden en de Trechterbekerkultuur . Flint 'Nhoes, Borger 1984.
  • William Collings Lukis : Report on the hunebedden of Drenthe, Netherlands. In: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London. 2nd series. Volume 8, 1878, pp. 47-55 ( online ).
  • Wijnand van der Sanden , Hans Dekker: Gids voor de hunebedden in Drenthe en Groningen . WBooks, Zwolle 2012, ISBN 978-9040007040 .
  • Nynke de Vries: Excavating the Elite? Social stratification based on cremated remains in the Dutch hunebedden. Master thesis, Groningen 2015 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Großsteingrab Loon  - 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 ).
  2. ^ Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed: 421080 te Loon