Stone box from Rolfsen
The Rolfsen stone box in the Lüneburg Heath is located in the forest, about one kilometer west of the town of Rolfsen , 100 m to the left of the side road to Evendorf in Lower Saxony . The stone box is located in a flat, about 80 cm high rolling stone hill, the edge of which is held by large stones. In its center is the small, open chamber (1.4 × 1.25 m) made of four flat boulders .
The complex , which was scientifically examined by the Helms Museum , received its current appearance through its restoration in 1963. It became clear that the hill was originally supported by a stone wreath with dry stone walls in between. The surface consisted of a boulder pack. The investigation showed that the chamber had been carefully built from boulders. The smooth stone sides faced the inside. A piece of the former capstone had blown off so that it was too small for the chamber restoration. Since the stone box had been ransacked beforehand, no finds could be recovered in situ . However, shards of an urn and corpse fire indicated that a reburial had taken place in the pre-Roman Iron Age .
The chamber was previously considered to be the Urdolmen . After a comparison with similar, better datable systems, they are now assigned to the stone boxes from the beginning of the Bronze Age .
Shield Dolmen Grave
Curbs of the hill of the stone box
Shield Dolmen of the Neolithic Age
See also
literature
- Willi Wegewitz : Rolfsen's stone chamber. In: Guide to Prehistoric and Protohistoric Monuments. Volume 7: Hamburg-Harburg. Sachsenwald. Northern Lueneburg Heath. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1967, pp. 138–141.
- Hery A. Lauer: Archaeological walks in Eastern Lower Saxony. A Guide to Terrain Monuments. Self-published, Angerstein 1979, ISBN 3-922541-08-9 , p. 59.
Coordinates: 53 ° 9 ′ 30 ″ N , 10 ° 8 ′ 25.6 ″ E