Passage grave of Steenbergen

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Passage grave of Steenbergen Hunebed D1
The large stone grave D1 near Steenbergen

The large stone grave D1 near Steenbergen
Passage grave of Steenbergen (Netherlands)
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Coordinates 53 ° 6 '17.6 "  N , 6 ° 24' 37.7"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 6 '17.6 "  N , 6 ° 24' 37.7"  E
place Noordenveld , OT Steenbergen , Drenthe , The Netherlands
Emergence 3470 to 2760 BC Chr.
van Giffen no. D1

The passage grave of Steenbergen is a megalithic tomb of the Neolithic western group of the funnel cup culture (TBK) near Steenbergen , a district of Noordenveld in the Dutch province of Drenthe . The grave bears the Van Giffen number D1.

location

The facility is the northernmost large stone grave in the province of Drenthe. It is located north of Steenbergen on the border with Roderesch , directly on a dirt road.

Research history

The grave was first described by Nicolaus Westendorp , who visited it in 1814 and published a report on it in 1815. In 1918 Albert Egges van Giffen documented the facility for his atlas of the Dutch megalithic graves. In 1953 and 1954 the grave was restored by van Giffen. Further restorations took place in 1965, 1993 and 1997. A systematic archaeological excavation has not yet taken place. Since 1993 the facility has been a national monument ( Rijksmonument ).

description

The complex is an approximately east-west oriented passage grave . A stone enclosure could not be found. The burial chamber has a length of 11.6 m and a width of 3.6 m. It has six pairs of wall stones on the long sides, one end stone each on the narrow sides and six cap stones. In van Giffen's first documentation, the cap stones all fell down inside the chamber. During the restorations of 1953 and 1954, they were put back onto the wall stones. A stone had broken into five pieces and had to be put back together with cement . Severe damage from a campfire made it necessary to repair a capstone again in 1997. 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 and a cap stone.

See also

literature

  • Jan Albert Bakker : The TRB West Group. Studies in the Chronology and Geography of the Makers of Hunebeds and Tiefstich Pottery. Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1979, ISBN 978-90-70319-05-2 .
  • 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. 205 ( online version ).
  • Evert van Ginkel , Sake Jager, Wijnand van der Sanden: Hunebedden. Monuments van een steentijdcultuur. Uniepers, Abcoude 1999, ISBN 978-9068252026 , p. 164.
  • Albert Egges van Giffen : De Hunebedden in Nederland , 3 volumes. Oosthoek, Utrecht 1925.
  • 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 .
  • Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .

Web links

Commons : Großsteingrab Steenbergen  - Collection of images, 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 ).
  2. ^ Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed: 467460 te Roden