Stone chamber in the Adamshai
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The stone chamber in Adamshai (forest area) is located about 600 m southwest of the Brunkelburg near Erkerode in Reitlingstal im Elm in the Wolfenbüttel district in Lower Saxony .
In the gently sloping terrain there is a partially destroyed and overgrown Neolithic stone chamber about six meters long and two meters wide, in a flat mound of earth 30 m long. A total of eleven of their limestone slab bearing stones can be seen. Some of them are in situ . The bearing stones on the southwest long side are tilted outwards. A gap either shows the former access to the chamber or indicates a missing bearing stone. None of the capstones and the stones of the hill border have survived.
In the 19th century the chamber with the Sprockhoff no. Excavated haphazardly in 814. The remains of eleven skeletons, some flint tools and ceramics of an undetermined kind were found. The cultural allocation of the chamber has not been decided. ( Funnel cup (TBK) or Wartberg culture ). It is seen partly as a stone box (W. Schrickel, 1965), partly as part of the Nordic megalithic architecture (G. Körner, 1962). The region lies in the overlap area of the Altmark deep engraving ceramics with the groups or cultures of Wartberg and three groups of the TBK (north, east and south group). A few meters south of the chamber is a large mound that could contain a second grave.
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literature
- G. Körner: Prehistoric Journal 40, 1962, (excursion report).
- W. Schrickel: Western European elements in the Neolithic grave construction of Central Germany and the gallery graves of West Germany and their inventories . Vol. 2, Bonn 1965, 461.
- 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. 86.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 54.6 " N , 10 ° 44 ′ 26.8" E