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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Gerichtsstaette Steingrab Alternative Name: Sprockhoff 945, Gerichtsstätte GroßsteingrabCountry: Germany Land: Lower Saxony, Bremen Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Wildeshausen Nearest Village: Dötlingen Aschenbeck
Latitude: 52.934380N Longitude: 8.410230E
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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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| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
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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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| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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CharcoalBurner89 visited on 18th Oct 2021 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Judgment was often held here in the village. Therefore the name. Otherwise, the system is poorly preserved, even if it is still clearly recognizable.
johnstone visited on 4th Sep 2017 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 4
Martin_L have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.5 Ambience: 3 Access: 4
Just to the South of these remaining chamber part a capstone is lying turned upside down. According to the research of Sprockhoff et al. the chamber has preserved all orthostats except for the Southern chamber-endstone and the southernmost orthostat of the eastern side . In consequence chambers' original size would have been approx. 6m x 3,5m (clear size approx. 4m x 1,5m). However as the southern chamber end is uncertain and also the shape of the earthwork is hard to determine it of course is hard to prove this thesis without data from excavation. There also is no data regarding a possible enclosure. The sites' name “Gerichtstätte” could be translated as “place of tribunal” deriving from the local use in historic times.
The tomb is nicely situated inside a small wood, but next to the village. The next house is just twenty metres away. It could be an excellent site if someone would decide to put the remaining capstone back on its orthostats.
Reference: Sprockhoff, Schwieger in: Körner, G. (Ed.), Sprockhoff, E. Atlas der Megalithgräber Deutschlands, Teil 3: Niedersachsen-Westfalen, Habelt, Bonn, 1975, p. 135, Atlasblatt 158
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