Masbrock stone grave
| Masbrock stone grave Great stone grave Havekost | |||
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 View of the tomb after von Estorff |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 4 '51.6 " N , 10 ° 40' 33.7" E | ||
| place | Römstedt , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 786 | ||
The large stone grave Masbrock (also Großsteingrab Havekost ) was a megalithic tomb of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Masbrock , a district of Römstedt in the district of Uelzen , Lower Saxony . The large stone grave was described by Georg Otto Carl von Estorff in 1846 and was still in good condition at the time. It was completely destroyed in the second half of the 19th century. The grave bears the Sprockhoff number 786.
location
The grave was located north of the path from Masbrock to the Havekost residential area on the original outskirts of Havekost. The complex was framed by two Bronze Age burial mounds . The two large stone graves near Römstedt , which were also destroyed in the 19th century, were located just under 3 km to the northwest .
description
According to von Estorff, the complex was “one of the most beautiful barrows in the area”. It had a well-visible mound with a north-south oriented burial chamber , which was a large dolmen . It had six pairs of wall stones on the long sides and a capping stone on the northern narrow side. The situation on the southern narrow side cannot be seen on the reconstruction drawing. The wall stones were almost completely in the earth, so that the cap stones touched the mound. When von Estorff took the picture, all capstones were still preserved. There were seven of them, and unusually two stones rested on the southernmost pair of wall stones. The chamber was 9 m long and 1.5 m wide.
literature
- Georg Otto Carl von Estorff : Pagan antiquities of the area of Uelzen in the former Bardengaue (Kingdom of Hanover). Hahn'sche Hof bookstore, Hanover 1846 ( online ).
- 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. 69.
