Great stone grave Valthe-Valtherspaan
| Great stone grave Valthe-Valtherspaan Hunebed D35a | |||
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 49 '45.4 " N , 6 ° 53' 4.9" E | ||
| place | Borger-Odoorn , OT Valthe , Drenthe , Netherlands | ||
| Emergence | 3470 to 2760 BC Chr. | ||
| van Giffen no. | D35a | ||
The large stone grave Valthe-Valterspaan was a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic western group of the funnel cup culture near Valthe , a district of Borger-Odoorn in the Dutch province of Drenthe . It was destroyed in the 1870s and its remains were archaeologically examined in 1920 . The grave bears the van Giffen number D35a.
location
The grave was south of Valthe in the Valtherspaan. There are numerous other large stone graves in the vicinity. to the northeast are the large stone grave Valthe-Zuidwest (D35) and the large stone grave Valthe-West (D34), to the northwest the two large stone graves at Valthe-Oost (D36 and D37) and to the south the three large stone graves at Emmerveld (D38-D40). Several destroyed graves are also known from this area. To the northwest was the large stone grave Valthe-Valtherveld (D33) and south the large stone grave Weerdinge (D37a).
Research history
The facility was first documented in 1833 by Caspar Reuvens and in 1847 by Leonhardt Johannes Friedrich Janssen . In the 1870s the grave was destroyed. In 1920 Albert Egges van Giffen carried out an archaeological investigation on the remains of the complex.
description
The complex was probably an aisle grave . The grave chamber had according Janssen m and a length of 12 m, a width of 2.5. It consisted of five pairs of wall stones on the long sides and one end stone each on the narrow sides. During his excavation, however, Van Giffen could only find an oval pit in which there was a burial chamber with a length of 7.1 m and a width of 2 m. Because of these significant discrepancies, Evert van Ginkel considered the possibility that there could have been two different large stone graves. However, a misinterpretation of the finding by van Giffen cannot be ruled out.
literature
- Jan Albert Bakker : A list of the extant and formerly present hunebedden in the Netherlands. In: Palaeohistoria. Volume 30, 1988, pp. 63-72 ( online ).
- 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. 217 ( 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. 182.
- Leonhardt Johannes Friedrich Janssen : Drentsche Outheden. Kemink en Zoon, Utrecht 1848 ( online ).
Web links
- hunebeddeninfo.nl: D35a / Valthe (Valtherspaan), gemeente Borger-Odoorn
Individual evidence
- ^ 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 ).