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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Bretsch Steingrab 2 Alternative Name: Altmark 6, DornröschengrabCountry: Germany
NOTE: This site is 5.488 km away from the location you searched for.
Land: Saxony-Anhalt Type: Long Barrow
Nearest Town: Stendal Nearest Village: Bretsch
Latitude: 52.844443N Longitude: 11.647871E
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 |
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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 |
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johnstone visited on 24th Aug 2020 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4
NNE-SSW rectangle shaped Long Barrow, 13,5 x 7m.
23 of the kerbstones have survived, most of them fallen outwards.
Chamber with same orientation, in the middle of the enclosure.
Set up with 10 uprights, 4 stones on each long side;
4 capstones. 2 of the othostats are missing as well as
1 of the capstones. Only 2 capstones are still on the uprights,
the third has been pulled to the north outside the tomb.
Chambers size 5 x 1m.
The second of three tombs between Bretsch und Drüsedau.
It is located in the fields inside lots of bushes.
References:
Johann Friedrich Danneil
'Specielle Nachweisung der Hünengräber in der Altmark'
Sechster Jahresbericht (Neuhaldensleben-Gardelegen 1843)
No. 15
Eduard Krause, Otto Schoetensack
'Die megalithischen Gräber (Steinkammergräber) Deutschlands'
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie
25. Band v. 1893, No. 36, p. 140
Hartmut Bock, Barbara Fritsch, Lothar Mittag
'Großsteingräber in der Altmark'
Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt
Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte, Halle (Saale) 2006, No. 6, p. 57
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