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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Wittstedt Steingrab Alternative Name: Sprockhoff 618
Country: Germany Land: Lower Saxony, Bremen Type: Passage Grave
Nearest Town: Bremerhaven Nearest Village: Wittstedt
Latitude: 53.403213N Longitude: 8.634796E
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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
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-1	Completely destroyed

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3	Ordinary
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1	Awful
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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
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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
1	co-ordinates of the nearest town
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**Wittstedt Steingrab** submitted by Martin_L : From the South: Perfectly preserved passage-grave with 4 chamber-capstones and one passage-capstone situated in moorland west of the village Wittstedt. Chamber size is appr. 6,5m x 2m. Clear size will probably be appr. 5m x 1,5m. According to Sprockhoff (Sprockhoff et al., Atlas der Megalithgräber Deutschlands, Teil 3, p. 7) it was discovered comparatively late (around 1910). It was very over... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Perfectly preserved passage-grave with 4 chamber-capstones and one passage-capstone situated in moorland (Nesser Höpens Moor) west of the village Wittstedt.
Chamber size is appr. 6,5m x 2m. Clear size will probably be appr. 5m x 1,5m.

According to Sprockhoff (Sprockhoff et al., Atlas der Megalithgräber Deutschlands, Teil 3, p. 7) it was discovered comparativly late (around 1910). It was very overgrown by moorland then, so chamber type was hard to determine. Nevertheless Sprockhoff identified 4 stones as capstones during his examination in 1927. Nowadays the tops of nearly all uprights and many other construction details are visible, although the chamber is still rather deep in the moorland.

Access remarks: There is no path. Wellies were required during my visit in December 2007. Tomb itself is situated on a (wet) pasture, but to get there it is necessary to walk 400m through/along moorland (luckily frozen during my visit) and climb over some barbed wire.
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