Battin's block chamber
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 20 '12.1 " N , 14 ° 8' 50" E | ||
| place | Brüssow , Brandenburg , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
The block chamber of Battin was a megalithic tomb, probably of the Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture (TBK) near Battin , a part of the municipality of Brüssow in the Uckermark district ( Brandenburg ). It was archaeologically examined in 1896 and later destroyed.
location
The grave was 1 km southwest of Battin on the Trendelberg. At the northern exit of the village in Mühlenberg was the large stone grave Battin .
description
The system had a round mound with a diameter of 18 m and a height of 2 m. On the hill was a round enclosure made of 13 stones with a diameter of 11 m. Around the center of the hill was a north-south oriented burial chamber. Its top ended with the top of the hill, which means that the system can be referred to as a block chamber . The chamber consisted of five wall panels that were between 25 and 35 cm thick. The western long side had two wall panels. The cover plate was missing. The floor was paved with small slabs of red sandstone . The chamber had a length of 1.25 m, a width of 0.65 m and a height of 0.8 m.
At the time of the investigation, the burial chamber had already been robbed, but burial remains were discovered outside at the southwest and northeast corners. It was human skeletal remains from several individuals that were not examined in detail. At offerings a thick nackiges were Feuersteinbeil and a round scrapers and several fragments of flint found. The finds initially remained in private ownership and later moved to the Märkisches Museum in Berlin .
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings as well as the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest. Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe 1. Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 29.
- Jens Parschau: The Neolithic settlement in the Uecker-Randow area. Diploma thesis, Halle (Saale) 1986, No. 78.
- Eberhard Kirsch : Finds from the Middle Neolithic in the state of Brandenburg. Brandenburg State Museum for Prehistory and Early History, Potsdam 1993, p. 108.
- Ingeburg Nilius : The Neolithic in Mecklenburg at the time and with special consideration of the funnel beaker culture. Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1971, p. 93.
- Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 135.
- Hugo Schumann: The Stone Age graves of the Uckermark. Mieck, Prenzlau 1904, p. 9.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : The cultures of the younger Stone Age in the Mark Brandenburg. Prehistoric research 4. Berlin 1926, p. 140.