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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Lintern Grosssteingrab Alternative Name: Die großen Steine auf dem Goldesch, Kampgoren, Sprockhoff 898Country: Germany Land: Lower Saxony, Bremen Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Neuenkirchen Nearest Village: Lintern
Latitude: 52.441500N Longitude: 7.867833E
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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| -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 |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Historic names are 'Kampgoren' (possible translation: Garden of battle) or 'Große Steine auf dem Goldesch'. Sprockhoff No. is 898.
Two large stones in the west and east were interpreted as chamber-endstones. One upright of the southern longside is missing. One capstone is fallen into the chamber and partly overgrown now. Another one is slightly out of place, but still resting on its uprights. The westernmost and the easternmost capstones are missing. Sprockhoff identified a stone in the eastern end of the chamber as a fragment of the latter.
Today there are many other large erratic boulders around, that do not appear on Schwieger's fine drawing from 23.06.1926. Some of them certainly have been placed there by the farmer who will have found them on one of the surrounding fields. Some others could have been part of the tomb (I marked five of them on one of the photos). Maybe the chamber had a ring of kerbstones around it (like at many other tombs in this area) or they are from a destroyed passage. But this all is speculation, only an excavation by professional archaeologist could clarify this.
Situation of the tomb is much better now (2008), than during my visit in 1990. In 1990 it was rather overgrown and the chamber was nearly filled with small stones probably deriving from field clearance.
Access remarks:
It is only a short walk (350m) from the Ueffeln-Neuenkirchen road, but there is no signpost (January 2008). Same situation in February 2010.
References:
[1] Müller J.H., Reimers J., Vor- und frühgeschichtliche Alterthümer der Provinz Hannover, 1893
[2] Bödige N., Natur- und Geschichtsdenkmäler des Osnabrücker Landes, 1920
[3] Sprockhoff, Ernst (et al.) – Atlas der Megalithgräber Deutschlands – Teil 3 Niedersachsen - Westfalen, Habelt, Bonn, 1975, p. 119
First site entry (without description) by RunaStera in 2005
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