Great stone grave in Westenesch-Noord

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Great stone grave in Westenesch-Noord Hunebed D42
The large stone grave D42 near Westenesch

The large stone grave D42 near Westenesch
Great stone grave in Westenesch-Noord (Netherlands)
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Coordinates 52 ° 47 '45 .5 "  N , 6 ° 52' 13.5"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 47 '45  .5 " N , 6 ° 52' 13.5"  E
place Emmen , Drenthe , Netherlands
Emergence 3470 to 2760 BC Chr.
van Giffen no. D42

The large stone grave Westenesch-Noord 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 D42.

location

The grave is located north of Westenesch and is accessible via a dirt road that branches off from Schietbaanweg. There are numerous other large stone graves in the vicinity. 940 m south is the great stone grave Westenesch (D44), 1.1 km east-northeast the great stone grave Emmen-Noord (D41), 1.2 km east-southeast the great stone grave Emmen-Schimmeres (D43), 2 km northeast the three great stone graves near Emmerveld (D38 –D40) and 2.6 km to the east the Emmerdennen stone grave (D45). 2.8 km north-northeast was the destroyed large stone grave Weerdinge (D37a).

Research history

The existence of the grave was first mentioned on the Hottinger map drawn up between 1788 and 1792. 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. A restoration took place in 1960. In 1965 van Giffen examined the entrance area. Since 1983 the facility has been a national monument ( Rijksmonument ).

description

The complex is a poorly preserved southeast-northwest oriented passage grave . A stone enclosure could not be found. The burial chamber has a length of 16.5 m and a width of 4.8 m. It originally consisted of 21 wall stones on the long sides, one end stone each on the narrow sides and ten cap stones. Seven wall stones and six cap stones are missing. Before the entrance, van Giffen was able to determine the standing holes of three pairs of gang stones in 1965. This number is unique for the large stone graves in the Netherlands, usually one or two pairs of gangestones are common.

Finds

During a subsequent search of the excavated earth, van Giffen found a bronze double-edged razor from the Middle Bronze Age (1400–1200 BC) during his investigation in 1965 .

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. 219 ( 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. 186.
  • 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 Westenesch-Noord  - Collection of images, 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 ).
  2. ^ Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed: 45369 te Westenesch