Großsteingrab Siegum

The tomb lies 150 m west of the settlement of Siegumlund near Siegum. It is a heavily destroyed Hünenbett (long stone-edged enclosure) oriented east-west. Most of the kerb stones are missing; only two on the east side and some on the west side survive. Because the removal of the remaining stones left a distinct pit, the dimensions of the enclosure can still be determined: it was 32 m long and 5 m wide.

The burial chamber was a dolmen set lengthwise. Of this only one damaged stone survives, and here too the clearing of the chamber left a distinct pit. The surviving stone can be identified as the northern supporting stone of the west long wall. The chamber was about 2.00 m long and 1.50 m wide. Ernst Sprockhoff lists the tomb in his Atlas der Megalithgräber under number 22.

Nordic megalith architecture emerged in northern Europe mainly between 3500 and 2800 BCE. Schleswig-Holstein now reports 3,212 megalithic monuments and 958 long mounds.