Sunberig megalithic complex
| Great stone grave Sunberig Great stone grave Utersum 1 | |||
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 Great stone grave Sunberig |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 42 '54.5 " N , 8 ° 23' 49.9" E | ||
| place | Utersum , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany | ||
| Dimensions | 1.8 m × 0.6 m | ||
| height | 0 m | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 13 | ||
The Sunberig megalithic complex is located directly on the dike west of Utersum , a village on the island of Föhr , in the district of North Friesland in Schleswig-Holstein . It is a box-like dolmen from the Stone Age.
The grave was opened in 1895 by the teacher Heinrich Philippsen in consultation with the State Museum . A thin stone ax , remains of bones and the ashes of a death fire were found.
In Atlas of Germany megalithic of Ernst Sprockhoff is Dolmen as Sprockhoff 13 out.
The chamber
The burial chamber lies in a now barely visible hill and is oriented in a north-west-south-east direction. The long sides consist of two horizontal supporting stones, which identifies the complex as an ancient dolmen . The north-western end of a narrow beam, opposite is a stone slab in front of the entrance. A large, flat capstone is placed on the northwest end, the rest of another capstone has been rolled off. The chamber is only about 1.8 mx 0.6 m.
See also
literature
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany - Schleswig-Holstein . Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966, p. 6.
Web links
- Around Föhr: Megalithic grave Sunberig ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- The Megalithic Portal: Utersum Steingrab (engl.)
- Panoramio: stone chamber grave from the Stone Age (approx. 4000 BC) (picture on Panoramio)