<< Our Photo Pages >> Bruneforths Esch Huenengrab 1 - Passage Grave in Germany in Lower Saxony, Bremen
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Bruneforths Esch Huenengrab 1 Alternative Name: Sprockhoff 846, Groß Stavern Steingrab ICountry: Germany Land: Lower Saxony, Bremen Type: Passage Grave
Nearest Town: Stavern
Latitude: 52.783000N Longitude: 7.436367E
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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 0 | no data |
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CharcoalBurner89 visited on 30th Apr 2022 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5 Fairly well preserved and with massive megaliths. Wonderful visit which I thoroughly enjoyed.
SolarMegalith visited on 1st Aug 2007 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
johnstone visited on 20th Apr 2005 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5
DrewParsons Martin_L have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.33 Ambience: 3.67 Access: 4.67
(Site description submitted by Martin_L , March 2009)
This is one of the extremely long neolithic tombs, that are typical for the Drenthe (Netherlands) / Emsland (Germany)-Area. Although damaged by destruction attempts, the site still is terrific due the enormous size of the chamber and some capstones. Several stones have drill-holes to prepare them for blasting, but fortunately the complete destruction of this monument was stopped. According to Sprockhoff et al. 29 out of probably 34 orthostats and 8 out of probably 12 capstones are preserved. Clear size of this chamber is 25m x 3m (centre) -1,8m (at both ends). The chamber is orientated approximately East-West, the lateral 3m long passage way was situated at the middle of chamber's southern long-side. A rare feature is the constriction of the chamber at the entrance. As a result it originally had two niches on both sides of the entrance (compare ground-plan from info-board). Only the upper halves of the orthostats are visible as the chamber is partly embedded into the remains of the largely eroded barrow.
The ambience is slightly reduced by an oversized information panel (2,4m x 1,8m) placed very close to the tomb and the road leading along the tomb at a distance of 10m.
Reference:
[1] Sprockhoff, Schwieger in: Körner, G. (Ed.), Sprockhoff, E. Atlas der Megalithgräber Deutschlands, Niedersachsen-Westfalen, p. 98f.
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