Great stone grave Westervelde

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Great stone grave Westervelde Hunebed D2
The large stone grave D2 near Westervelde

The large stone grave D2 near Westervelde
Great stone grave Westervelde (Netherlands)
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Coordinates 53 ° 3 '20.5 "  N , 6 ° 26' 45.1"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 3 '20.5 "  N , 6 ° 26' 45.1"  E
place Noordenveld , OT Westervelde , Drenthe , The Netherlands
Emergence 3470 to 2760 BC Chr.
van Giffen no. D2

The large stone grave Westervelde is a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic western group of the funnel cup culture (TBK) near Westervelde , a district of Noordenveld in the Dutch province of Drenthe . The grave bears the Van Giffen number D2.

location

The grave is located on the northeastern outskirts of Westervelde in a field and can be reached via a footpath.

Research history

The grave was first mentioned in a mayor's letter in 1869. In 1918 Albert Egges van Giffen documented the facility for his atlas of the Dutch megalithic graves. Restorations took place in 1928, 1952 and 1965. A systematic archaeological excavation has not yet taken place. Since 1993 the facility has been a national monument ( Rijksmonument ).

description

The complex is an approximately east-west oriented passage grave . A stone enclosure could not be found. The burial chamber has a length of about 8 m and a width of about 3 m. It has four pairs of wall stones on the long sides and one end stone each on the narrow sides. Of the original four cap stones, the two eastern ones still rest on the wall stones. Only a fragment of a third capstone remains, which lies inside the chamber and shows traces of blast holes. The access to the chamber is in the middle of the southern long side. In front of this is a corridor made of two wall stones.

See also

literature

  • Jan Albert Bakker : The TRB West Group. Studies in the Chronology and Geography of the Makers of Hunebeds and Tiefstich Pottery. Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1979, ISBN 978-90-70319-05-2 .
  • 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. 205 ( online version ).
  • Evert van Ginkel , Sake Jager, Wijnand van der Sanden: Hunebedden. Monuments van een steentijdcultuur. Uniepers, Abcoude 1999, ISBN 978-9068252026 , p. 165.
  • Albert Egges van Giffen : De Hunebedden in Nederland , 3 volumes. Oosthoek, Utrecht 1925.
  • G. de Leeuw: Onze hunebedden. Gids before Drentse hunebedden en de Trechterbekerkultuur . Flint 'Nhoes, Borger 1984.
  • Wijnand van der Sanden , Hans Dekker: Gids voor de hunebedden in Drenthe en Groningen . WBooks, Zwolle 2012, ISBN 978-9040007040 .
  • Nynke de Vries: Excavating the Elite? Social stratification based on cremated remains in the Dutch hunebedden. Master thesis, Groningen 2015 ( online ).
  • Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .

Web links

Commons : Großsteingrab Westervelde  - 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 ).
  2. ^ Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed: 467465 te Norg