Testorf stone grave
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 15 '18.7 " N , 10 ° 45' 33.1" E | ||
| place | Wangels OT Testorf , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 274 | ||
The large stone grave Testorf is a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Testorf , a district of Wangels in the Ostholstein district in Schleswig-Holstein . It bears the Sprockhoff number 274.
location
The grave is on the eastern outskirts of Hansühn on the western edge of a field belonging to Testorf. There are several other large stone graves in the vicinity : 660 m north is the large stone grave Hansühn 2 , 1 km southwest the large stone grave Hansühn 1 , 1.2 km southwest the large stone grave near Neutestorf , 2.4 km east the large stone grave Meischenstorf and 2.7 km east-north-east the grave grave Grammdorf 1 .
description
The complex has a north-east-south-west oriented rectangular barren bed with a length of 23 m and a width of 8 m. Numerous stones have been preserved from the enclosure on all sides. The burial chamber is a little southwest of the center of the bed. It is a north-east-south-west oriented passage grave of the Holstein Chamber subtype with a length of about 7.5 m and a width of 1.3 m. The chamber originally had seven pairs of wall stones on the long sides, one end stone each on the narrow sides and five cap stones. There are six wall stones on the northwest and five on the southeast long side as well as the two end stones. The capstones lie dragged in various places outside the chamber. The access to the chamber is located between the fourth and fifth stone of the south-east long side, seen from the south-west. A corridor with a pair of wall stones is in front of it. The corridor has a length of 3 m and a width of about 0.5 m.
literature
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 1: Schleswig-Holstein. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966, p. 74.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Hansuehn Langbett (Testorf)
- strahlen.org: "Testorf" large stone grave, Hansühn near Lütjenburg
- steinzeugen.de: Destroyed large stone grave Testorf