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Again one of the great funnel beaker megalith tombs! It's a pretty good preserved chamber, oriented NW-SO, 5,9 x 1,7 m in size, built from ten, partly splitted wall stones and two of four original capstones.
The tomb is surrounded by grave mounds of newer age. It is easy to see the group of eighteen mounds nohrt of the tomb. This testifies, that cemetries had a long persistence in use.
A typical architecture of prehistoric graves are the Emsländer Kammer. They are passage-graves measuring more than 20m length and 2m width and 1m hight inside. Most are oriented from east to west and have an entrance in the middle of the southern side. They originally were buried within long, oval earth mounds, that were bordered with small erratic blocks. Sometimes there are dual or triple passage chambers.
Those graves were built by the first farmers and ranchers of Europe. It were people of the Trichterbecherkultur between 3400 and 2800 B.C. Those places were used for many generations. The skeletons are decayed, as the soil does not contain much lime.
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| Age | : | 5100 | | Town | : | 49699 Lindern | | Administration | : | Cloppenburg | | State | : | Niedersachsen | | Sprockhoff ID | : | 962 | | Picture file name | : | imgq2068.jpg | | Picture date | : | 08.05.2008 13:54:00 |
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