Great stone tomb Schipborg

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Great stone tomb Schipborg Hunebed D7
The large stone grave D7 near Schipborg

The large stone grave D7 near Schipborg
Great stone grave Schipborg (Netherlands)
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Coordinates 53 ° 3 '40.2 "  N , 6 ° 41' 4.3"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 3 '40.2 "  N , 6 ° 41' 4.3"  E
place Aa en Hunze , OT Schipborg , Drenthe , Netherlands
Emergence 3470 to 2760 BC Chr.
van Giffen no. D7

The large stone grave Schipborg is a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic western group of the funnel cup culture near Schipborg , a district of Aa en Hunze in the Dutch province of Drenthe . The grave bears the Van Giffen number D7.

location

The grave is located southeast of Schipborg in the Kniphorstbos forest. There are several other large stone graves in the vicinity: 1 km east is the large stone grave Anloo-Noord (D8), 2.1 km east the large stone grave Annen (D9) and 2.7 km southwest the large stone grave Gasteren (D10).

Research history

The grave was first mentioned on French maps drawn up in 1811-13. In 1878 the first investigation was carried out by William Collings Lukis and Henry Dryden . The finds made are now in the Drents Museum in Assen and in the British Museum . In 1918 Albert Egges van Giffen documented the facility for his atlas of the Dutch megalithic graves. In 1952 the grave was restored.

description

The complex is an east-north-east-west-south-west oriented passage grave . A stone enclosure could not be found. The burial chamber has a length of 8.8 m and a width of 3.1 m. It has four pairs of wall stones on the long sides, one end stone each on the narrow sides and four cap stones. A large piece of a capstone has broken off and is now in the chamber. The access to the chamber is in the middle of the southern long side. In front of this is a corridor made of two wall stones.

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. 207 ( 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. 167.
  • G. de Leeuw: Onze hunebedden. Gids before Drentse hunebedden en de Trechterbekerkultuur . Flint 'Nhoes, Borger 1984.
  • William Collings Lukis : Report on the hunebedden of Drenthe, Netherlands. In: Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London. 2nd series. Volume 8, 1878, pp. 47-55 ( online ).
  • Wijnand van der Sanden , Hans Dekker: Gids voor de hunebedden in Drenthe en Groningen . WBooks, Zwolle 2012, ISBN 978-9040007040 .

Web links

Commons : Großsteingrab Schipborg  - 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 ).