Great stone grave in Rastede
| Great stone grave in Rastede Old chapel | |||
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 The large stone grave in Rastede |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 12 '9.6 " N , 8 ° 16' 3.4" E | ||
| place | Rastede , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 924 | ||
The large stone grave in Rastede , also known as the old chapel , is a burial site of the Neolithic beaker culture near the municipality of Rastede in the Ammerland district ( Lower Saxony ). It bears the Sprockhoff number 924.
location
The grave is located south of Rastede in the field of peasantry Wahnbek on a field.
description
It belongs to the passage grave type and is oriented northwest-southeast. The burial chamber is located in a flat hill and has a length of about 4 meters and a width of about 1.6 meters. The grave is in a poor state of preservation. On the northern long side, two wall stones have been preserved in situ , another on the southern long side and the wall stone on the eastern narrow side. The western wall stone of the corridor, which is on the south side of the burial chamber, has also been preserved. Another stone is on the edge of the mound. All other stones were used in the 19th century for the construction of the grand ducal monument near Rastede Castle .
literature
- 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. 129.
