Passage grave from Ostenfeld
The passage grave of Ostenfeld in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde in Schleswig-Holstein is located together with a sloping rectangular pole in a huge bed . The small passage grave is of the "Holstein Chamber" type. Placing several megalithic systems in the same megalithic bed is rare in Germany (in contrast to Denmark). The combination of these types and the inclination (s) are also rare. The system with the Sprockhoff no. 157 was made between 3500 and 2800 BC. BC as a megalithic system of the funnel beaker culture (TBK).
The long bed
The rectangular north-east-south-west oriented long bed is still 27 m long and 7.5 m wide. It was probably originally longer, as the north-eastern chamber would otherwise be unusually close to the narrow side. The stones of the enclosure were partially preserved, the south-western end is secured.
The rectangular dolmen
The rectangular dolmen with a short corridor Sprockhoff no. 157 was examined by Klaus Raddatz in 1950 . It is inclined to the axes of the long bed.
The inside of the dolmen is 2.5 m long, 1.7 m wide and 1.4 m high. It has two bearing stones on the long sides and one on the narrow sides. All bearing stones are the same height. The southern bearing stone on the long side is slightly shorter and the eastern one on the narrow side is slightly angled. This creates a gap in the south-eastern corner of the chamber, where a corridor made of two pairs of bearing stones opens.
The 1.6 m long and 0.6 m wide corridor begins in line with the enclosure, the corridor stones are slightly lower and their smooth sides face the inner corridor, at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the facility. The chamber probably originally had a stone pavement, two stones lay in situ , under a pile of burned flint. Pieces of flint were observed in the churned filler soil.
From the filling come shards from several vessels, u. a. two edge shards of a funnel beaker and two flint blades .
The passage grave
The small, coaxially located, slightly trapezoidal passage grave is oriented southwest-northeast. It is only 3.2 m long, 1.75-1.45 m wide (wider in the southwest) and 1.4 m high. On the northern long side there are four relatively narrow bearing stones, the south-western one is slightly angled. There is a wide bearing stone on each of the narrow sides. There are three bearing stones on the southern side. Between the first and second there is a 0.4 m wide gap with a half-height threshold stone . The cap stones of the chamber are missing. The gaps between the supporting stones of the chamber and corridor were closed with carefully layered intermediate masonry and head-sized stones. In the chamber, remains of the pavement made of stone slabs and fist-sized pebbles under a layer of burned flint remained undisturbed.
In front of it opens the eccentrically attached corridor that runs diagonally towards the chamber. It consists of two pairs of bearing stones, the upper edges of which are 0.35 m lower than the upper edges of the curb stones and has two cap stones in situ . The corridor is only 0.3 m wide on the outside, but becomes wider towards the chamber.
The interior of the chamber was largely and for the most part disturbed to below the grave floor. In and outside the chamber, on the capstones of the corridor and in front of the entrance, fragments of around 15 TBK vessels were found in a secondary position. A flint blade found in the chamber on the flint embankment may have been in situ .
According to E. Aner, the passage grave was subsequently built into the long bed. While the front passage stones of the dolmen are only slightly lower than the border stones and are in line, those of the passage grave fall out of the frame not only because of their small thickness and height, but also because of the protruding left entrance stone.
See also
literature
- E. Aner: The great stone graves of Schleswig-Holstein In. Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments Volume 9 Schleswig, Haithabu, Sylt von Zabern Mainz 1978.
- E. Aner: The position of the dolmen of Schleswig-Holstein in the Nordic megalithic culture. Offa 20, 1963, pp. 9-38.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 1: Schleswig-Holstein. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966, p. 42.
Individual evidence
- ↑ J. Roß p. 56 "In exceptional cases like the Ostfeld dolmen the entrance is on a corner of the chamber" (this form is more common in Sweden)
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Coordinates: 54 ° 19 ′ 12.2 " N , 9 ° 48 ′ 28.1" E