Tumulus von Evessen

The mound belongs to a group of burial mounds between the Elm and the Asse that are regarded as princely graves. They include the Galgenberg north of Klein Vahlberg, the Meescheberg south of Klein Vahlberg, the partly destroyed Muspott near Eilum, and two further mounds near Evessen, the Kleines Hoch and the Thies-Hoch, which were excavated and removed in the 18th century. In the excavation of the Kleines Hoch in 1745 an urn was found, presumably from a secondary burial.

As early as 1745 Pastor Johann Friedrich Faicke recognised that the mound at Evessen must be a prehistoric grave. An essay in the Braunschweigische Anzeigen of 16 January 1745 held the Evessen tumulus to be a princely grave dating from the Early Bronze Age (1800 to 1600 BCE) or from the Neolithic (4000 to 2000 BCE). It is possible that, like other burial mounds, it was visited repeatedly as a burial place over long periods, so that its present form is the result of long-lasting processes.

An eyewitness described the excavation of one of the other mounds in November 1744. A farmer looking for red sand at the Kleines Hoch caught sight of two stones facing each other and dug deeper in the hope of treasure. Beneath the broken vault the witness saw ash and charcoal, and found in the fragments of a broken urn burnt bones and a molar of a human, which he collected and took home.