<< Our Photo Pages >> Oberbipp Dolmen - Burial Chamber or Dolmen in Switzerland in Bern
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Oberbipp DolmenCountry: Switzerland
NOTE: This site is 3.029 km away from the location you searched for.
Canton: Bern Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Solothurn Nearest Village: Oberbipp
Latitude: 47.263201N Longitude: 7.660183E
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 |
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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 |
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Megalithic89 visited on 15th Mar 2022 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 The discovery site is in the construction zone. No one has yet dared to build a house there.
aolson visited on 12th Oct 2019 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Nicely placed in the quiet churchyard.
Andy B have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4 Ambience: 4 Access: 4
The dolmen is in large parts still intact, and thought to date from the second half of the 4th Millennium BC, and to be a collective grave of a residents of Oberbipp farming community. In past centuries it was protected by a layer of sediment from which only a small piece was sticking out of the top plate. The dolmen is very rare surviving evidence for this type of grave in Switzerland, most were destroyed because they hindered agricultural use.
The massive cover plate of Oberbipp rests on several smaller blocks of granite, which form the walls of the actual grave chamber. Roman and medieval finds from the adjoining layers show that the dolmens was for the most part was visible above ground, at least to the 13th Century. The sediment was deposited around him until later, probably during floods of the mill stream, which are likely to be the reason why the dolmen has been damaged.
The original find spot was 47.260490N, 7.660278E.
Note: Who lived on the Swiss Plateau around 3300 BC? Analyses of human skeletal remains from the dolmen of Oberbipp and other sites have now been published - more in the comments on our page.
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