Great stone grave in Westenesch
| Great stone grave in Westenesch Hunebed D44 | |||
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 The large stone grave D44 near Westenesch |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 47 '15.5 " N , 6 ° 52' 19.5" E | ||
| place | Emmen , Drenthe , Netherlands | ||
| Emergence | 3470 to 2760 BC Chr. | ||
| van Giffen no. | D44 | ||
The large stone grave Westenesch is a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic western group of the funnel cup culture near Westenesch , a farming community in the municipality of Emmen in the Dutch province of Drenthe . It bears the Van Giffen number D44.
location
The grave is located on the northern outskirts of Westenesch on Schietbaanweg. It is the only large stone grave in the Netherlands that stands on private property. There are numerous other large stone graves in the vicinity. 940 m north is the large stone grave Westenesch-Noord (D42), 1.2 km east - northeast the large stone grave Emmen-Schimmeres (D43), 1.6 km northeast the large stone grave Emmen-Noord (D41), 2.5 km east the large stone grave Emmerdennen (D45) and 2.8 km north-northeast are the three large stone graves near Emmerveld (D38 – D40).
Research history
The existence of the grave was first mentioned in 1848 by Leonhardt Johannes Friedrich Janssen . 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 1961 van Giffen carried out a minor archaeological investigation and a subsequent restoration. Since 1983 the facility has been a national monument ( Rijksmonument ).
description
The complex has been so badly damaged that its original appearance can no longer be reconstructed. In the east there are still two wall stones, an adjoining end stone and a cap stone resting on it. To the west of this is another wall stone with a series of wedge holes. A fourth wall stone that van Giffen was able to pick up in 1918 seems to have disappeared in the meantime. The orientation and dimensions of the original system and the exact type of grave can no longer be determined. Van Giffen's excavation in 1961 did not provide any information about this either.
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 , pp. 219, 222 ( 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. 187.
- Leonhardt Johannes Friedrich Janssen : Drentsche Outheden. Kemink en Zoon, Utrecht 1848 ( online ).
- 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
- The Megalithic Portal: D44 Westenesch
- hunebedden.nl: Hunebed D44
- hunebeddeninfo.nl: D44 / Westenesch
- JohnKuipers.ca: D44 Emmen-Westenes
- cruptorix.nl: D44
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: 45370 te Westenesch