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Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech
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Ramsdorf 1, an extended dolmen, is located directly at the Owschlag rest area in close proximity to the Autobahn A7 and the Owschlag junction. Originally the grave was located east of Ramsdorf and 250 m west of the road leading south from Brekendorf at Hof Langenberg. Since it was endangered by the construction of the A7, it was moved about 400 m to the southeast to the state road L265 in the 1960s.
The site originally had a round mound with a stone enclosure. The burial chamber is an east-west oriented extended dolmen. It consists of two pairs of support stones on the long sides, two end stones on the western narrow side, one end stone on the southern half and a half-height entry stone on the northern half of the eastern narrow side as well as two cap stones. All stones were still in situ when Sprockhoff examined the tomb. The western capstone has a length of 2.5 m, a width of 1.75 m and a thickness of 0.8 m. It has several cup marks on its top. There is also a cup mark on the eastern capstone. The access on the east side of the chamber was originally closed with a stone slab that was found to the east outside the chamber.
P.S.: The image stabilizer on my camera didn't work properly on this tour, so some of my images are unfortunately out of focus. Sorry for that.
Visited June 2020
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Posted by Nucleus
22nd August 2020ce
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