<< Our Photo Pages >> Bredelem Grosssteingrab - Passage Grave in Germany in Lower Saxony, Bremen
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Bredelem Grosssteingrab Alternative Name: Bredelem Steinkiste, Heidbrink Steinkammergrab, LangelsheimCountry: Germany Land: Lower Saxony, Bremen Type: Passage Grave
Nearest Town: Braunschweig Nearest Village: Bredelem
Latitude: 51.959920N Longitude: 10.343090E
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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About 19 Meters long Allee Couverte with only 1 remaining 1.4 Meter tall upright. Most of the limestone uprights are about 50 cms tall. There are a few stray stones around the Allee Couverte, but all cap stones are gone. The site was excavated in 1959 and restored to some extend. It was dated to between 3500 and 2800 BCE. An other website suggests the passage grave never had capstones as no evidance of them has been found an that it may have had wooden beams for a roof instead, meaning it was built by a different culture than the other famous passage graves such as Lübensteine and Gross Steinum. There is a slightly shortened near full scale model in the Braunschweigisches Museum in Wolfenbütel, which suggests the upright was an altar and which includes the wooden roof and an embrionic tumulus. A further unauthenticated 2.5 Meter tall Menhir stands fenced off at the front of a nearby farm. In fields near Bredelem in Niedersachsen, Germany.
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