<< Our Photo Pages >> Kleinenkneter Steine 1 - Chambered Tomb in Germany in Lower Saxony, Bremen
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Kleinenkneter Steine 1 Alternative Name: Große Steine I, Sprockhoff 957Country: Germany Land: Lower Saxony, Bremen Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Wildeshausen Nearest Village: Kleinenkneten
Latitude: 52.863296N Longitude: 8.436301E
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 |
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-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 |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4.4 Ambience: 4.4 Access: 4
Rectangular longbarrow, 49 x 7m. The barrow is supported by 62 kerbstones. Some of them being very large, especially at barrows' northern and southern end. Orientation appr. 10° (~ S-N). The barrow-centre contains a trapezoid-shaped passage- grave of same orientation. The chamber has 4 orthostats on the western and 5 on eastern longside. One large chamber endstone each in the north and south.
The lateral entrance is located between orthostats E3 and E4 (counting from the North) at the eastern chamber side. Entrance-orientation appr. 100°. Clear chamber size is 6m x 1,4m (south) /2m (north). The tomb was restored in the 1930s. Among other things the partly eroded barrow was rebuilt and two missing capstones of the chamber were replaced by concrete blocks.
Most probably it is now very close to its original state. The only exception is the gap between two orthostats at chambers' NW edge. This was left to let some light into the chamber and ease visits without torch. But nevertheless a torch is useful.
Reference:
Sprockhoff, Schwieger in: Körner, G. (Ed.), Sprockhoff, E. Atlas der Megalithgräber Deutschlands, Niedersachsen-Westfalen, p. 138
First site entry by RunaStera in 2005
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