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<< Our Photo Pages >> Floegeln Steingrab 2 - Passage Grave in Germany in Lower Saxony, Bremen

Submitted by Martin_L on Tuesday, 10 February 2009  Page Views: 5011

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Floegeln Steingrab 2 Alternative Name: Sprockhoff 610, Flögeln Grab 2, AL 131
Country: Germany Land: Lower Saxony, Bremen Type: Passage Grave
Nearest Town: Bremerhaven  Nearest Village: Flögeln
Latitude: 53.646719N  Longitude: 8.790640E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
5 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
4

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jopplanje visited on 31st Oct 2022 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 4

CharcoalBurner89 visited on 6th Mar 2021 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 3 Access: 4 A very well preserved tumulus with a chamber on the archaeological trail of Flögeln.

johnstone visited on 23rd Jun 2018 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 4

Harald_Platta visited on 22nd Jul 2015 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 4

likecats visited - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 5

DrewParsons Martin_L have visited here

Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 5 Ambience: 4.2 Access: 4.2

Floegeln Steingrab 2
Floegeln Steingrab 2 submitted by Martin_L : Chamber looking roughly West (February 2009) (Vote or comment on this photo)
Late neolithic passage grave built by the funnel-beaker people appr. 5000 BP.
Due to the fact that it was discovered very late this is one of the very few sites in Germany where a passage grave chamber is nearly completely preserved in its original state (regarding stones and barrow) . Similar states of preservation are only found at Denghoog on Sylt and “Räuberhöhle” Idstedt.

The chamber is situated in a round barrow, diameter 29m, height approximately 3,5m. According to [1] the barrow was surrounded by a ring of small boulders and some larger erratic blocks.
Chamber orientation is 120° (~WNW-ESE), the lateral passage is situated in the middle of the southern long side and orientated SSW. Clear size of the chamber: length 6m, width 1,6m-2m, height 1,2m [2]. Original height appr. 1,4m.

Each long side is built of 4 orthostats, the short sides of 1 orthostat. The chamber is covered by five capstones. The 1,5m passage is made up of 2 pairs of orthostats and two capstones.

In 1882 the chamber was discovered and dug up by a teacher named Scheper. He found the chamber filled with sand. In 1898 another excavation by Dr. Bohls took place. The first appropriate excavation was done by Dr. Aust, Nast and Claussen in 1973.

Many fragments of funnel-beaker pottery, flintstone artifacts and ashes from cremation were found. But also some of the the findings were found to belong to the later single-grave culture. A lot of the funnel-beaker pottery obviously was removed from the chamber and huddled up outside the entrance. This lead to the conclusion, that the chamber was reused by the single-grave culture. Same observation could be made at other sites. Remains of the older burials were removed to reuse the tomb. Aust et al. also found the western chamber part separated by a wall of flat slabs. Similar findings were made for example by Prof. Ewald Schuldt during his outstanding research at several tombs in Mecklenburg.

References:
[1] Aust, H. in: Führer zu vor- und frühgeschichtlichen Denkmälern Band 31, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz, 1976, p. 122-126
[2] Krause, Schoetensack, Sprockhoff, Schwieger in Körner, G. (Ed.), Sprockhoff, E., Atlas der Megalithgräber Deutschlands, Niedersachsen-Westfalen, p. 4-5
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Floegeln Steingrab 2
Floegeln Steingrab 2 submitted by Martin_L : Eastern chamber part of this stunningly well preserved passage grave. 2009 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Floegeln Steingrab 2
Floegeln Steingrab 2 submitted by Martin_L : Construction details of chamber and entrance passage. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Floegeln Steingrab 2
Floegeln Steingrab 2 submitted by Martin_L : Construction details of chamber and entrance passage. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Floegeln Steingrab 2
Floegeln Steingrab 2 submitted by Martin_L : The entrance. It is orientated SSW (maybe this collides slightly with some recent theories regarding the orientation of passages). Stick size is 1m. (February 2009) (Vote or comment on this photo)

Floegeln Steingrab 2
Floegeln Steingrab 2 submitted by Martin_L : Panorama of the chamber as seen from the entrance (February 2009) (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Floegeln Steingrab 2 submitted by DrewParsons : The site sign.

Floegeln Steingrab 2
Floegeln Steingrab 2 submitted by DrewParsons : The round barrow and its entrance which was gated and locked when I visited it in September 2009.

Floegeln Steingrab 2
Floegeln Steingrab 2 submitted by Martin_L : Chamber looking roughly East (February 2009)

Floegeln Steingrab 2
Floegeln Steingrab 2 submitted by Martin_L : Barrow and entrance of Grab II. Flögeln Grab I is situated in the background left (February 2009)

Floegeln Steingrab 2
Floegeln Steingrab 2 submitted by CharcoalBurner89 : The inside of the megalithic grave 'Flögeln 2' before 1957. Photo by Carl Schemkes.

Floegeln Steingrab 2
Floegeln Steingrab 2 submitted by CharcoalBurner89 : The entrance to the megalithic grave 'Flögeln 2' before 1957. Photo by Carl Schemkes.

Floegeln Steingrab 2
Floegeln Steingrab 2 submitted by CharcoalBurner89 : March 6, 2021

Floegeln Steingrab 2
Floegeln Steingrab 2 submitted by CharcoalBurner89 : March 6, 2021

Floegeln Steingrab 2
Floegeln Steingrab 2 submitted by johnstone : The gate before and after I got the key in the castle (Museum Burg Bederkesa), June 23 and 30, 2018

Floegeln Steingrab 2
Floegeln Steingrab 2 submitted by johnstone : Ground-plan (1927), Picture credits: Sprockhoff, Atlas der Megalithgräber Deutschlands, Teil 3: Niedersachsen (1975)

Floegeln Steingrab 2
Floegeln Steingrab 2 submitted by DrewParsons : The general area site sign and map at the car park at the start of the walk to the site.

Floegeln Steingrab 2
Floegeln Steingrab 2 submitted by DrewParsons : View through the locked gate. September 2009

Floegeln Steingrab 2
Floegeln Steingrab 2 submitted by Martin_L : The entrance seen from inside the chamber (February 2009).

Floegeln Steingrab 2
Floegeln Steingrab 2 submitted by Martin_L : View towards the capstones, showing some construction-details (February 2009)

Floegeln Steingrab 2
Floegeln Steingrab 2 submitted by Martin_L : Construction detail. Often megalithic tombs are reduced to “capstones” and “uprights”, but at this site it is possible to study the refined original drywalling. There are also larger stones used inside the drywall (marked 1 and 2) that will have been quite important to the statics of the tomb. The removal of those stones will be one important reason why some capstones can be found to be ...

Floegeln Steingrab 2
Floegeln Steingrab 2 submitted by Martin_L : Info-Board at the site (August 2008)

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Re: Floegeln Steingrab 2 by jopplanje on Wednesday, 02 November 2022
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PS: when I checked my pictures I will add the picture of the information plate
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Re: Floegeln Steingrab 2 by jopplanje on Wednesday, 02 November 2022
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[visit 31st of October 2022] The gate to the tomb is still closed for public and according the informationplate only foor admitted persons there is a key to get in the neighbourhood village.
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