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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Leetze Steingrab 8 Alternative Name: Wötz 8, Altmark 24
Country: Germany Land: Saxony-Anhalt Type: Passage Grave
Nearest Town: Salzwedel Nearest Village: Leetze
Latitude: 52.761140N Longitude: 11.032860E
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

3 Ambience:

5	Superb
4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
0	No data.

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
0	No data.

3 Accuracy:

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
0	no data

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CharcoalBurner89 visited on 26th Feb 2022 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 It is now easy to find, as there is a hunter's tower next to the stone grave.

johnstone visited on 25th Aug 2020 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 3

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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.5 Ambience: 3.5 Access: 3

**Leetze Steingrab 8** submitted by Martin_L : The chamber is well preserved except for the capstones. 2 are collapsed into the chamber, the fragment of another capstone is visible in the forground. The orthostats are deeply embedded into the remains of the round barrow. June 2009 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Passage Grave near Salzwedel in Saxony-Anhalt

References:

Johann Friedrich Danneil
'Specielle Nachweisung der Hünengräber in der Altmark'
Sechster Jahresbericht (Neuhaldensleben-Gardelegen 1843)
No. 78

Eduard Krause, Otto Schoetensack
'Die megalithischen Gräber (Steinkammergräber) Deutschlands'
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie
25. Band v. 1893, No. 114, p. 151

Hartmut Bock, Barbara Fritsch, Lothar Mittag
'Großsteingräber in der Altmark'
Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt
Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte, Halle (Saale) 2006, No. 24, p. 112
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