Großsteingrab Wenzendorf

Dolmen

Großsteingrab Wenzendorf

Germany

DatedEst. 3500–2800 BCE

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The Großsteingrab Wenzendorf, also called the Großsteingrab Wennerstorf or Margaretenstein, is a megalithic tomb of the Neolithic Funnel Beaker culture near Wennerstorf, a district of the municipality of Wenzendorf in the Landkreis Harburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. It carries the Sprockhoff number 671 and is dated by typological estimate to between 3500 and 2800 BCE.

The monument has an oval mound 16 m long and 11 m wide and appears to be a great dolmen (Großdolmen).

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Großsteingrab Wenzendorf

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The tomb lies north of Wennerstorf, roughly halfway between the village and the A 1 motorway, in a small wood.

Großsteingrab Wenzendorf

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The tomb lies north of Wennerstorf, roughly halfway between the village and the A 1 motorway, in a small wood.

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The oval mound is 16 m long and 11 m wide and contains an east-west oriented burial chamber. In its original state the chamber consisted of five pairs of wall stones on the long sides, two end stones at the short sides and five capstones, which indicates a great dolmen.

The western end stone is still in situ, as are, counted from the west, the first and third stones of the south side and the third stone of the north side. The second stone of the north side has been blasted into three pieces. The western capstone has slipped northwards, and the next capstone lies in pieces, also blasted, inside the chamber. Two further blasted stones lie at the eastern end of the chamber and can no longer be identified clearly as wall stones or capstones.