Name: Sloopsteine von Haltern
Address: DE

Overview

The Sloopsteine von Haltern are a megalithic tomb of the Neolithic Funnel Beaker culture at Haltern, a district of the municipality of Belm in the Landkreis Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany. The catalogue record gives a typological estimate of 3500 to 2800 BCE.

The chamber is 10.5 m long and strongly trapezoidal in plan. The tomb is among the well-preserved large stone graves of the region.

The monument is oriented east to west and has a strongly trapezoidal ground plan. The chamber is 10.5 m long and between 1.6 m wide in the west and 3.8 m wide in the east. It is catalogued as Sprockhoff no. 917.

On the north side there are now six supporting stones (originally seven), and on the south side seven. Most of them have been displaced inwards. The western narrow side consists of one supporting stone and the eastern of two, one of which no longer stands in its original position.

Of the six capstones originally present, whose thickness increases towards the east, five survive, but all have fallen between the supporting stones of the chamber. The entrance is presumed to have been on the southern long side, between stones 3 and 4. No trace of the original mound can be seen.

Sloopsteine von Haltern

Overview

The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.