Vorgeschichtsweg Seemoor

The Vorgeschichtsweg Seemoor is a 2.8-kilometre trail through a quiet woodland 1.5 kilometres east of Steden in Lower Saxony. It links ten numbered prehistoric sites, each marking a different moment in the past. The path winds through a mixed forest where Bronze Age burial mounds sit beside traces of medieval farming. The route is worth following for the two Neolithic megalithic tombs that stand along it. Site 4 is a disturbed chamber with three fallen capstones and a missing end stone. Site 7, excavated and restored in 1975, is a passage grave measuring six by one and a half metres. Finds from the chamber included bones, arrowheads, jewellery and sherds of funnel-beaker pottery dated to the 1st century BCE. Visitors walk a gravel track that passes grassy mounds and the relocated cup-marked stone with its twelve small hollows. Information boards describe the Bronze Age barrows, the iron-age wheel and yoke discovery, and the medieval ridge-and-furrow fields still visible under the trees. The forest floor is dotted with bilberry and moss, giving the route a calm, sheltered feel.