Great stone grave Norby
| Great stone grave Norby | |||
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 32 '19.4 " N , 9 ° 48' 5.7" E | ||
| place | Rieseby OT Norby , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 56 | ||
The large stone grave Norby was a megalithic burial complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Norby , a district of Rieseby in the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district in Schleswig-Holstein . The grave bears the Sprockhoff number 56. It was archaeologically examined by Wilhelm Splieth in 1900 and probably destroyed shortly afterwards.
location
The grave was located 500 m south of Norby and 150 m east of the road to Sönderby . In the vicinity there are several preserved megalithic tombs : 2km west lies the megalithic grave Bohnert , 2.2 km north-north-east are the megalithic tombs in Büstorf 2.3 km east-northeast, the megalithic grave hear .
description
The plant had a round pile of mounds. The burial chamber was a north-west-south-east oriented extended dolmen with a rectangular floor plan. The length was about 2 m and the width 1 m. There were still two pairs of wall stones on the long sides, a large end stone on the north-western narrow side and a half-height entry stone on the south-eastern narrow side. The cap stones were already missing at the time of the investigation.
literature
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 1: Schleswig-Holstein. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966, p. 20.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Norby Stone Tomb