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Everstorfer Forst Nord 5 is an extended dolmen of which only three large supporting stones and numerous small stones remain. The supporting stones appear to be in situ, making it possible to reconstruct the dimensions of the chamber. The capstones are no longer present.

Despite its ruinous state, the site still functions as a clear waypoint along the row — the long barrow of Everstorfer Forst Nord 6 lies about 40 m further west, while looking back east, the long barrow of Everstorfer Forst Nord 3 is visible roughly 70 m away in the background.

Everstorfer Forst Nord 8 is a simple dolmen that was only discovered during Ewald Schuldt’s 1966 excavations, hidden beneath a flat earthen mound — which is why it never received a Sprockhoff number. The gangless chamber, about 0.8 m high, 2.4 m long and 0.8 m wide, is oriented north-south. Its capstone appears to have been broken into two pieces, apparently by blasting or splitting.

This is the only dolmen in Schuldt’s entire excavation series found lying sunk below the original ground level rather than raised within a visible mound — probably the reason it stayed hidden from Sprockhoff’s original 1930s survey and only came to light decades later.

It lies about 30 m from the long barrow Everstorfer Forst Nord 3.

Visited June 2026

This long barrow lies parallel south of grave Everstorfer Forst Nord 3 and has been quite heavily disturbed; the original length of the monument may have been around 44 metres according to the on site information sign. It has not yet been excavated and examined.

Unlike its immediate neighbours to the north, this barrow sits slightly off the main east–west row, on the southern side — worth watching for as you move along the line of tombs, since it’s easy to walk straight past it.

Everstorfer Forst Nord 4 lies just to the south of Everstorfer Forst Nord 3 position.

Visited June 2026

Everstorfer Forst Nord 3 is a slightly trapezoid long barrow measures about 16 by 3.5–4 metres. The burial chamber sits at the eastern end of the barrow and was only discovered during later excavations.

The fact that the chamber went unnoticed for so long, hidden within the mound until excavation revealed it, is a good reminder of how much of this landscape’s structure lies just beneath the visible surface.

Coming from the east, this is the third tomb of the row, lying 30 m east of grave Everstorfer Forst Nord 2 — the two are visible from one another along the row.

Visited June 2026

Everstorfer Forst Nord 2 is a simple dolmen that is still partly embedded in the earth and, in Sprockhoff’s day, was completely hidden within its round mound. It consists of a narrow chamber capped by a comparatively thick capstone.

Unlike most of its neighbours, this tomb was never fully excavated out of its covering mound — it still sits half-buried, giving a rare sense of what these barrows looked like before modern excavation stripped them bare.

It is the second tomb of the northern group, 100 m west of Everstorfer Forst Nord 1. Looking west from here, the long barrow of Everstorfer Forst Nord 3 already comes into view in the background.

Visited June 2026