Weerdinge stone grave
| Weerdinge stone grave Hunebed D37a | |||
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 49 '10.9 " N , 6 ° 53' 4.2" E | ||
| place | Emmen , OT Weerdinge , Drenthe , Netherlands | ||
| Emergence | 3470 to 2760 BC Chr. | ||
| van Giffen no. | D37a | ||
The large stone grave Weerdinge was a megalithic burial complex of the Neolithic western group of the funnel cup culture near Weerdinge , a district of Emmen in the Dutch province of Drenthe . It was examined in 1837 and later completely destroyed. Further investigations into his remains took place in 1925 and 1993. It bears the Van Giffen number D37a.
location
The grave was to the west of Weerdinge in Valtherbos, a wooded area between Valthe , Weerdinge and Emmen. There are a large number of burial mounds in this forest . There are numerous other large stone graves in the immediate vicinity: 1 km south are the three remaining large stone graves near Emmerveld (D38-D40), 2.2 km south the large stone grave Emmen-Noord (D41), 2.8 km south-southwest the large stone grave Westenesch- Noord (D42), 2.9 km south of the large stone grave Emmen-Schimmeres (D43), 2 km north-northwest the large stone grave Valte-Zuidwest (D35), 2.3 km north-northwest the two large stone graves at Valthe-Oost (D36 and D37), 2 , 8 km north-northwest the large stone grave Valthe-West (D34) and 2.9 km north-northwest the destroyed large stone grave Valthe-Valtherveld (D33).
Research history
In 1837 the grave of J. Kouwens De Sille was excavated and later destroyed. Albert Egges van Giffen examined the remains of the grave in 1925. Jan N. Lanting carried out another examination in 1993. Due to the very poor state of preservation of the facility, both excavations yielded little information. The site of the facility has been a national monument ( Rijksmonument ) since 1983 .
description
During the investigations by van Giffen and Lanting, the complex was already so badly damaged that the floor plan of the burial chamber could no longer be reliably reconstructed. Their length could be determined to be about 5.5 m. It probably had no more than two pairs of wall stones on the long sides and one end stone each on the narrow sides. The exact type of grave could not be determined, and it cannot be ruled out that it was not a large stone grave but a stone box . According to van Giffen's investigation, the mound of the grave was piled up in two phases. According to Lanting, it originally had a maximum height of 0.6 m.
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. 218 ( 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. 197.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: D37a Valtherbos
- hunebeddeninfo.nl: D37a / Weerdinge (Valtherbos), gemeente Emmen
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 ).
- ^ Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed: 45386 te Emmen