Oldendorfer Totenstatt

The Oldendorfer Totenstatt is a group of six burial mounds and megalith sites in Oldendorf north of Amelinghausen in the valley of the River Luhe in Lüneburg district in the German state of Lower Saxony [1]. It consists of dolmens (sites 1, 3 and 4) and tumuli (sites 2, 5 and 6) [1]. Site 1 is a 45 m-long dolmen, most of which has been destroyed [1]. Site 4 is an 80 m-long dolmen [1]. It originally had about 100 external stones, 14 of which are still in situ, the remainder were put back during its restoration (some with dry stone walling filling the gaps) [1]. Site 2 is a tumulus about 20 m in diameter in the centre of which the remains of a passage grave are located [1]. Sites 5 and 6 are Bronze Age tumuli [1]. Inside the chamber of site 2 and 4 were found relicts of Funnelbeaker, Globular amphora, and Corded Ware cultures at different levels [1].