<< Our Photo Pages >> Oestringer Steine 1 - Chambered Tomb in Germany in Lower Saxony, Bremen
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Oestringer Steine 1 Alternative Name: Sprockhoff 913Country: Germany Land: Lower Saxony, Bremen Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Osnabrück Nearest Village: Nettetal
Latitude: 52.314990N Longitude: 8.081470E
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 |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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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 |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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This is one of the large passage graves of the funnel beaker people's western group. It is oriented SW-NE. The lateral passage faces SE. As usual it is situated at the centre of a long-side. The megalithic ensemble is almost complete except for the southwestern third. The chamber deeply embedded into the ground. Only the tops of several chamber orthostats are visible. Due to the damages in the SW it is difficult to give the exact length of the chamber, but it has to be 21-23m* . The enclosure measured appr. 29m* by 7m. It is extremely well preserved except for the southwestern third.
The original number of chamber capstones possibly was 13. At least eight are preserved largely in situ. Two partly buried stones in the SW possibly also are capstones (judging from position and size).
Nowadays it gets cleared from time to time, but two large trees partly hide it during growing season. By the time Sprockhoff et. al. examined the site it was extremely overgrown so they had difficulties to inspect it.
January 2011
*my estimate based on the usual symmetry
Reference:
Sprockhoff, Schwieger in: Körner, G. (Ed.), Sprockhoff, E. Atlas der Megalithgräber Deutschlands, Teil 3 "Niedersachsen-Westfalen", Habelt, Bonn, 1975 grave. From the SW.
First site entry (without description) by RunaStera in 2005
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