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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Sachsenwald Alter Hau (1) Alternative Name: Sprockhoff 289, Steenaben
Country: Germany Land: Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg Type: Long Barrow
Nearest Town: Reinbek, Hamburg Nearest Village: Sachsenwaldau
Latitude: 53.548050N Longitude: 10.310630E
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

3 Ambience:

5	Superb
4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
0	No data.

4 Access:

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.

2 Accuracy:

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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**Sachsenwald Alter Hau (1)** submitted by holger_rix : The brontosaurus of Long Barrows in Germany. Size 154 m x 8,5 m, mound just about 0.70 high. Orientation WNW - ESE. The visible kerb stones are small in size, most of them about 0.50 m - 0.80 m high, and not deep in the ground. The lack of bigger stones might explain the absence of a stone burial chamber, a feature that can be seen at about 30 long barrows in the Sachsenwald ar... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Long Barrow in Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg

text by 'holger_rix', 8-2010:

The brontosaurus of Long Barrows in Germany.

Size 154 m x 8,5 m, mound just about 0.70 high. Orientation WNW - ESE.

The visible kerb stones are small in size, most of them about 0.50 m - 0.80 m high, and not deep in the ground. The lack of bigger stones might explain the absence of a stone burial chamber, a feature that can be seen at about 30 long barrows in the Sachsenwald area. (Some of them even without kerb stones). 80 stones at the north and 85 at the south long side have survived.

A small path, used mainly by riders, goes right through the barrow, about 30 m from the WNW end. A number of big trees (1 - 1,5 diameter) grow right on the middle of the mound.

'Alter Hau Grab 1' has never been excavated, but four other chamberless barrows about 500 m S and SE of it have been examined.

Sources:

OFFA 13, Ernst Sprockhoff, 'Kammerlose Hünenbetten im Sachsenwald', p 1-16;
Ernst Sprockhoff: Atlas der Megalithgraeber Deutschlands, Teil 1, Schleswig-Holstein

text by 'stollentroll':
A very large hunebed, 154 x 8.5 Meters in size. Not in a good condition, several stones of the enclosure are missing. The tomb apparently had not a megalithic chamber.
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