Great stone grave Wittstedt
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 Great stone grave Wittstedt |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 24 '11.6 " N , 8 ° 38' 5.4" E | ||
| place | Hagen im Bremischen , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 618 | ||
The large stone grave Wittstedt is a between 3500 and 2800 BC. A megalithic complex of the Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture (TBK) near the district of Wittstedt in the district of Cuxhaven in Lower Saxony, which belongs to the municipality of Hagen in Bremen . It bears the Sprockhoff number 618.
location
The grave lies west of Wittstedt in the Nesser Höpens Moor.
description
The complex is a north-northeast-south-south-west oriented passage grave . When Ernst Sprockhoff took the picture in 1927, the chamber was still deep in the moor, so that only four cap stones and three bearing stones could be seen, which Sprockhoff could not assign with certainty. He interpreted a stone lying to the north as the remainder of a border. In the meantime, the grave protrudes a little further out of the ground and can be classified as extremely well preserved. All the large stones are still preserved. In total, there are four pairs of wall stones on the long sides, two end stones, four cap stones and a corridor on the southern long side, which consists of a pair of wall stones and a cap stone.
See also
literature
- Friedrich Plettke: Prehistory and early history of the Stade administrative district 3. Hansa-Bücherstube, Bremerhaven 1923, p. 81.
- 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. 7.
- Ernst Sprockhoff, Benne Eide Siebs: The large stone graves of the Elb-Weser angle. Heimatbund der Männer vom Morgenstern, Bremerhaven 1957, plate 48.
