Great stone grave Westerweyhe
| Great stone grave Westerweyhe | |||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 0 '55.2 " N , 10 ° 30' 46.6" E | ||
| place | Uelzen , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 771 | ||
The megalithic grave Westerweyhe is a grave system of Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture near to Uelzen belonging district Westerweyhe in district Uelzen in Lower Saxony . It bears the Sprockhoff number 771.
location
The grave is 1 km north of the outskirts of Westerweyhe and about 300 m east of the road to Barum in a wooded area.
description
The grave is in a very bad state of preservation. It has a north-west-south-east oriented mound bed with a length of 57 m and a width of 7 m. The mound still reaches a height of 1.6 m. There is no stone left from the former enclosure. A series of trenches that surround the entire hill still reveal the original locations of the stones. The burial chamber is located at the southeast end. Here, too, there is not a single stone left. During an excavation carried out in 1935, Karl Hermann Jacob-Friesen was able to find a paving made of granite - grus .
literature
- Georg Otto Carl von Estorff : Pagan antiquities of the area of Uelzen in the former Bardengaue (Kingdom of Hanover). Hahn'sche Hof bookstore, Hanover 1846.
- Karl Hermann Jacob : The megalithic graves of the district of Ülzen and the protection of the prehistoric monuments. In: News sheet for Lower Saxony's prehistory. Volume 1, 1920, p. 22ff.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , p. 64.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Westerweyhe Langbett
- strahlen.org: destroyed large stone grave "Westerweyhe", Westerweyhe, Uelzen