Great stone grave Wapse

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Great stone grave Wapse Hunebed D52a
large stone grave Diever-Wapse, Berkenheuvel, Pottiesbargien
Great stone grave Wapse (Netherlands)
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Coordinates 52 ° 51 '32.5 "  N , 6 ° 19' 52.2"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 51 '32.5 "  N , 6 ° 19' 52.2"  E
place Westerveld , OT Wapse , Drenthe , The Netherlands
Emergence 3470 to 2760 BC Chr.
van Giffen no. D52a

The large stone grave Wapse (also known as Berkenheuvel or Pottiesbargien ) was a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic western group of the funnel cup culture near Wapse , a district of Westerveld in the Dutch province of Drenthe . In the literature, the grave is sometimes referred to as Diever or Diever-Wapse. It was destroyed in 1735. Its remains were archaeologically examined in 1929 and 1988 . It bears the van Giffen number D52a.

location

The grave was located northeast of Wapse on the edge of the Drents-Friese Wold National Park . 3 km east-southeast is the still preserved Diever stone grave .

Research history

In 1734 all large stone graves in Drenthe were placed under legal protection. In 1735, however, a special permit was granted for the demolition of the Wapse grave. Albert Egges van Giffen examined the remains of the grave in 1929. Jan N. Lanting carried out a further examination in 1988, in which van Giffens overburden mounds in particular were thoroughly sieved again. The mound of the grave was then restored.

description

The complex was a passage grave . The burial chamber had a length of 15.3 m. It had eight pairs of wall stones on the long sides and one end stone each on the narrow sides.

Finds

The finds consist mainly of ceramic shards and flint tools. Lanting was able to recover about 15,800 broken pieces during his follow-up examination.

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 , pp. 224-225 ( online version ).
  • Albert Egges van Giffen : De Hunebedden in Nederland , 3 volumes. Oosthoek, Utrecht 1925.
  • Albert Egges van Giffen: Een vernield hunebed DXLIIa, het zoogenaamde Pottiesbargien, in het (vroegere) Wapserveld bij Diever, acc. The Ver. In Nieuwe Drentse Volksalmanak. Volume 64, 1946, pp. 61-71.
  • Evert van Ginkel , Sake Jager, Wijnand van der Sanden: Hunebedden. Monuments van een steentijdcultuur. Uniepers, Abcoude 1999, ISBN 978-9068252026 , p. 198.
  • Nynke de Vries: Excavating the Elite? Social stratification based on cremated remains in the Dutch hunebedden. Master thesis, Groningen 2015 ( 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 ).