Hoststeine

The site viewed from the West. February 2011.

Sprockhoff identified 4 orthostats and one capstone [1]. He mentioned a total number of eight preserved megaliths + fragments. The structure was already destroyed when Wächter examined it [1], [2]. Despite this damages Sprockhoff assumed the original ground-plan could be clarified by an excavation.
Sitename: Hoststeine, Sprockhoff 899, Kalkriese Großsteingrab

Visit report February 2011: Heavily overgrown with nice robinia and bushes. The chamber probably was oriented approx. East-West. Two stones possibly are orthostats of the Southern long-side almost in situ. One fallen stone near the assumed western end appears to be a capstone. The other megaliths are more difficult to attribute as smaller capstones and large orthostats usually have similar sizes.

[1]Sprockhoff, Schwieger 1926 in: Körner, G. (Ed.), Sprockhoff, E. Atlas der Megalithgräber Deutschlands, Teil 3 "Niedersachsen-Westfalen", Habelt, Bonn, 1975
[2] Wächter, J.K., Statistik der im Königreich Hannover vorhandenen heidnischen Denkmäler, Hannover 1841
[3] Müller, J.H., Vorchristliche Denkmäler der Landdrosteibezirke Lüneburg und Osnabrück und im Königreiche Hannover. Zeitschr. des hist. Vereins für Niedersachen, 1864