Great stone grave Valthe-Valtherveld

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Great stone grave Valthe-Valtherveld Hunebed D33
Great stone grave Valthe-Valtherveld (Netherlands)
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Coordinates 52 ° 50 '34.2 "  N , 6 ° 52' 2.4"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 50 '34.2 "  N , 6 ° 52' 2.4"  E
place Borger-Odoorn , OT Valthe , Drenthe , Netherlands
Emergence 3470 to 2760 BC Chr.
van Giffen no. D33

The large stone grave Valthe-Valtherveld 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 . The grave, which had already been largely destroyed, was removed in 1954 and its stones were used to reconstruct the large stone grave " De Papeloze Kerk " (D49) in Schoonoord . The grave bears the van Giffen number D33.

location

The grave was located west of Valthe, directly on the border with Odoorn on the Hunebedweg and only 150 m north of the still preserved large stone grave Valthe-West (D34). There are numerous other large stone graves in the vicinity. 880 m south-southeast is the large stone grave Valthe-Zuidwest (D35), 1.9 km east the two large stone graves at Valthe-Oost (D36 and D37), 2.4 km northwest the large stone grave Odoorn (D32) and 2.8 km north the Great stone grave Exloo-Zuid (D31). Several destroyed graves are also known from this area. 900 m north-northwest lay the stone grave Odoorn-Noorderveld 2 (D32d), 2.1 kilometers north-northwest the stone grave Odoorn-Noorderveld 1 (D32c), 2.4 km west-northwest the stone grave Odoorn-Westeres (D32a) and 2.8 km south-southeast the stone grave Weerdinge (D37a). The largest burial mound in Drenthe, the Eppiesbergje, is located 550 m north-northwest .

Research history

In 1878 the grave was first examined by William Collings Lukis and Henry Dryden . In 1918 Albert Egges van Giffen documented the facility for his atlas of the Dutch megalithic graves. In December 1954 van Giffen cleared the stones of the grave aside and carried out an archaeological excavation on the remains of the burial chamber . The stones were then transported to Schoonoord by the pioneer battalion of the Dutch Army in March 1956 in order to be used in the restoration of the large stone grave “De Papeloze Kerk” there.

description

The complex was probably a south-east-north-west oriented passage grave . The burial chamber had a length between 7 m and 7.5 m. Their exact appearance could no longer be reconstructed due to the severe destruction. Van Giffen was able to identify nine stones in 1918 (only eight are indicated on the floor plan). In 1954, however, he recorded eleven stones. His excavation brought only a few finds.

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. 196.
  • 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 ).

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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 ).