Cairn tomb cornices
The Wechte cairn grave in Wechte, a district of Lengerich in North Rhine-Westphalia , is a staggered burial mound from around 1700 BC. Chr., Which is in the street "Am Steinhügelgrab 29". The original was 400 m north on the route of the motorway slip road.
The central stone oval of 4.5 × 3 m was piled up about 0.6 m high from six layers of boulders of different sizes mixed with sand . It contained an east-west oriented, 0.5 m deep, sloped grave of 2 × 0.5 m. The foot of the hill, fortified with attachments , has a diameter of 10 m. The stone wreath could be the remainder of a previously closed stone ceiling that covered the entire top of the earthfill and is referred to as a rolling stone hill in archeology.
The 1.5 m wide and 0.5 m deep circular trench with a diameter of about 15 m, which surrounded the area almost concentrically, has not been reconstructed.
Nearby is the Wechte I gallery grave .
literature
- Heinz Knöll: The megalithic graves of Lengerich-Wechte (Steinfurt district). (= Soil antiquities of Westphalia , Volume 21). Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 1983, ISBN 3-402-05134-6 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ This in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern frequently encountered stone cover (no cairn or Röse ) is a thin layer of stone pebbles should convey on a mound, which prevent erosion, or the appearance of a stone hill.
Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 21.2 " N , 7 ° 47 ′ 7.8" E