Great stone grave in Siggen

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Great stone grave in Siggen
Great stone grave Siggen (Schleswig-Holstein)
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Coordinates 54 ° 17 '5.2 "  N , 11 ° 4' 26.2"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 17 '5.2 "  N , 11 ° 4' 26.2"  E
place Heringsdorf OT Siggen , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.

The large stone grave Siggen is a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Siggen , a district of Heringsdorf in the Ostholstein district in Schleswig-Holstein .

location

The grave is located southeast of Siggen in the forest of Großes Holz. The megalithic graves are located 440 m to the south-south-west near Süssau .

description

The complex has an east-west oriented mound bed with a length of about 50 m and a width between 5 m and 6 m. On the long sides, especially on the north side, numerous surrounding stones have been preserved. The slope of the hill is quite low. A burial chamber cannot be seen.

literature

  • Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 1: Schleswig-Holstein. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966, pp. 75–76.

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