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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Tesperhude Totenhaus Alternative Name: Bronzezeitliches Totenhaus von Grünhof-TesperhudeCountry: Germany
NOTE: This site is 3.127 km away from the location you searched for.
Land: Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Geesthacht Nearest Village: Grünhof-Tesperhude
Latitude: 53.404700N Longitude: 10.457300E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Just outside the village Tesperhude, near the river Elbe, a small muddy pathway leads to some of the the most unusual tombs that i have seen. In fact, there is nothing to compare in northern Germany.
First of, the 'House of the Dead', the 'Totenhaus' that gave this place the groussom name. It is apprx. 3200 years old. A woman and her 2 year old child have been burried here. Obviously they had build a house arround the two, standing on 12 wooden poles. The place was covered with stones, size 7 by 7 metres. This house has been burned down, and now just the stones are left.
The second tomb is a big bathtube like construction of stones, and the third has the shape of a horseshoe.
Besides these three there is a small tumulus, and a pretty big one a little aside.
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