Great stone grave Valthe-West

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Great stone grave Valthe-West Hunebed D34
The large stone grave D34 near Valthe

The large stone grave D34 near Valthe
Great stone grave Valthe-West (Netherlands)
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Coordinates 52 ° 51 '24.8 "  N , 6 ° 50' 22.1"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 51 '24.8 "  N , 6 ° 50' 22.1"  E
place Borger-Odoorn , OT Valthe , Drenthe , Netherlands
Emergence 3470 to 2760 BC Chr.
van Giffen no. D34

The large stone grave Valthe-West is a megalithic burial 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 bears the Van Giffen number D34.

location

The grave is located west of Valthe, directly on the border with Odoorn on the Hunebedweg. There are numerous other large stone graves in the vicinity. 860 m south-southeast is the large stone grave Valthe-Zuidwest (D35), 1.8 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. 150 m north was the large stone grave Valthe-Valtherveld (D33), 920 m north-northwest the large stone grave Odoorn-Noorderveld 2 (D32d), 2.1 km north - northwest the large stone grave Odoorn-Noorderveld 1 (D32c), 2.4 km west-northwest the Odoorn stone grave Westeres (D32a) and 2.8 km south-southeast the Weerdinge stone grave (D37a). The largest burial mound in Drenthe, the Eppiesbergje, is located 550 m north-northwest .

Research history

The existence of the grave was first mentioned in 1818 by R. Boelken. In 1869 it was partially destroyed. In 1878 the first documentation was made 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 1952 the grave was examined and restored by van Giffen.

description

The complex is a south-east-north-west oriented passage grave . A stone enclosure could not be found. The burial chamber has a length of 7.8 m and a width of 3 m. It consists of five pairs of wall stones on the long sides and one end stone each on the narrow sides. Of the original five capstones, three still exist. Van Giffen found during his investigation in 1952 that the interior of the chamber had already been completely emptied. The entrance to the chamber is located between the second and third wall stones on the south-western long side, seen from the south-east. In front of it is a corridor made of two wall stones.

literature

  • 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. 181.
  • G. de Leeuw: Onze hunebedden. Gids before Drentse hunebedden en de Trechterbekerkultuur . Flint 'Nhoes, Borger 1984.
  • 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 ).
  • Wijnand van der Sanden , Hans Dekker: Gids voor de hunebedden in Drenthe en Groningen . WBooks, Zwolle 2012, ISBN 978-9040007040 .

Web links

Commons : Großsteingrab Valthe-West  - Collection of pictures, 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 ).