Great stone grave of Odoorn

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Great stone grave of Odoorn Hunebed D32
The large stone grave D32 near Odoorn

The large stone grave D32 near Odoorn
Odoorn stone grave (Netherlands)
Red pog.svg
Coordinates 52 ° 51 '24.8 "  N , 6 ° 50' 22.1"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 51 '24.8 "  N , 6 ° 50' 22.1"  E
place Borger-Odoorn , OT Odoorn , Drenthe , Netherlands
Emergence 3470 to 2760 BC Chr.
van Giffen no. D32

The large stone grave Odoorn is a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic western group of the funnel cup culture near Odoorn , a district of Borger-Odoorn in the Dutch province of Drenthe . It bears the Van Giffen number D32.

location

The grave is located northwest of Odoorn and is accessible via a dirt road branching off from Borgerderweg. There are numerous other large stone graves in the vicinity. 2.4 km east-northeast is the large stone grave Exloo-Zuid (D31) and 2.4 km southeast the large stone grave Valthe-West (D34). Several destroyed graves are also known from this area. 1 km south-southwest was the Odoorn-Westeres (D32a) stone grave, 1 km east-northeast was the Odoorn-Noorderveld 1 (D32c) stone grave, 1.7 km east-southeast was the Odoorn-Noorderveld 2 stone grave (D32d) and 2.4 km southeast the Valthe -Noorderveld stone grave. Valtherveld (D33).

Research history

The existence of the grave was first mentioned in 1815 by Nicolaus Westendorp and in 1818 by R. Boelken. In 1918 Albert Egges van Giffen documented the facility for his atlas of the Dutch megalithic graves. Restorations took place in 1953, 1958 and 1995. During an investigation in 1958, van Giffen discovered a shallow grave of the funnel beaker culture in front of the entrance to the complex .

description

The complex is a poorly preserved east-north-east-west-south-west oriented passage grave . A stone enclosure could not be found. The burial chamber has a length of 7.6 m and a width of 3 m. It originally consisted of five pairs of wall stones on the long sides, one end stone each on the narrow sides and five cap stones. The two western stones on the southern long side are missing. Three wall stones and a cap stone are missing. Of the four cap stones that have been preserved, only the two outer ones are still on the wall stones. Gang stones are not available.

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 , p. 216 ( 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. 191.
  • G. de Leeuw: Onze hunebedden. Gids before Drentse hunebedden en de Trechterbekerkultuur . Flint 'Nhoes, Borger 1984.
  • Wijnand van der Sanden , Hans Dekker: Gids voor de hunebedden in Drenthe en Groningen . WBooks, Zwolle 2012, ISBN 978-9040007040 .

Web links

Commons : Großsteingrab Odoorn  - 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 ).