Large stone grave millstones

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Large stone grave millstones
Coordinates	52 ° 52 '24 "  N , 8 ° 19' 35.4"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 52 '24 "  N , 8 ° 19' 35.4"  E
place	Varnhorn , Lower Saxony , Germany
Emergence	3500 to 2800 BC Chr.
Sprockhoff no.	976

The large stone grave Mühlensteine , also Mühlenhöhe - formerly also called "Hogenmöhle" or "Möhlenhöge" - bears the Sprockhoff number. 976. It originated in the Neolithic between 3500 and 2800 BC. And is a megalithic system of the funnel beaker culture (TBK).

location

The large stone grave is located in a wood in the Mühlenhöhe hall, about one kilometer north of Varnhorn , a farming community in the Visbek municipality , Vechta district in the Wildeshauser Geest nature reserve in Lower Saxony . It was bought by the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg in 1876 and placed under protection.

description

At the south-west end, the small, south-west-north-east-oriented 6.4 meter long Emsland Chamber is better preserved. It consists of eight bearing stones, six of which are in situ . The largest of the four capstones is still there. One lies slipped in the bulging 1.8 to 1.6 meter wide chamber. At the west end there are two large fragments that belong to the same capstone. Access is lacking as is traces of a stone surround, but it should be a typical for the region passage grave act. However, there are remains of the former overhang. An illegal intervention in the chamber area in 1986 led to a partial examination of the grave, during which an intact paving was found. Shattered pottery was recovered from the complex and its surroundings , which allows the narrow conclusion that it was between 3400 and 3300 BC. BC and was used for about 300 years.

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The Schmeersteine large stone grave and the large stones at Thölstedt are nearby .

See also

• Nordic megalithic architecture

literature

• Jörg Eckert: Find chronicle for the Reg.Bez.Weser-Ems 1987 . In: Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Nordwestdeutschland 11, 1988, 131f., No. 143.
• 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. 144.

Web links

Commons : Great stone grave millstones  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Description of plan and pictures on www.steinzeugen.de
• Description of the plan and pictures on www.megalithic.co.uk
• Navigator focused on the millstones interactively. Official map service of the LGLN