Great stone grave Meyer
The poorly preserved large stone grave Meyer is a Neolithic passage grave of the Emsland Chamber type with the Sprockhoff no. 891. It originated between 3500 and 2800 BC. BC as a megalithic system of the funnel beaker culture (TBK).
location
The large stone grave is located on the "Archaeological Hiking Trail Giersfeld " in the Fürstenau Mountains, north of Ueffeln near the L 70 in the municipality of Ankum in the Osnabrück district in Lower Saxony . The facility suffered severe damage in the first half of the 19th century when it was misused as a quarry. The approximately 26.0 m long north-east-south-west oriented Meyer stone grave was the second largest chamber of the necropolis . The recognizable hill is about 30.0 m long.
According to Wächter's sketch, the chamber originally had 16 cap stones. Since 1864 there are only 9 stones left, which roughly represent the eastern quarter of the complex. Four bearing stones can be identified, the other stones are cap stones or remnants of them. The stone furthest to the east is likely to be the remainder of a capstone that remained in place when it was removed. One of the capstones still shows a clear blast hole.
Nearby is the Reinecke large stone grave .
See also
- Nordic megalithic architecture
- The plant is part of the street of the megalithic culture
literature
- Mamoun Fansa : large stone graves between Weser and Ems. Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-118-5 , pp. 86-87.
- Ernst Andreas Friedrich : The megalithic graves on the Giersfeld. In: If stones could talk. Volume I, Landbuch-Verlag, Hannover 1989, ISBN 3-7842-03973 , pp. 33-35.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , pp. 115-118.
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Wulf , Wolfgang Schlueter (archaeologist) : Archaeological monuments in the independent city and in the district of Osnabrück. Hannover 2000, ISBN 3-7752-5661-X
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Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 30.5 ″ N , 7 ° 52 ′ 59 ″ E