Langwedel dolmen
The dolmen of Langwedel in the municipality of Westensee in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde in Schleswig-Holstein was discovered by R. Renner under a bend and excavated. It is a rectangular dolmen with a half-height entrance, which was examined in 1963 by G. Schäfer. The megalithic system of the funnel beaker culture (TBK) was created between 3500 and 2800 BC. Chr.
description
chamber
The east-west facing chamber was about 2.5 m long and 1.2 m wide inside. The end stone and cap stones are missing. In addition to the located on the narrow side entrance were slightly on each side three inwardly sloping support stones in situ . In the north stood a boulder just 0.4 m wide between two 0.8–1.0 m wide stones. On the entry side, a flat plate and a small stone as an entry threshold were sunk about 70 cm. The gaps between the supporting stones were superficially filled with rolling stones and stone slabs.
ground
The floor of the chamber was carefully paved with hand-sized rolling stones and stone slabs. The slightly sloping pavement lay on the natural ground. There was a 2–4 cm thick layer of burnt flint on the pavement . The chamber casing consisted of a flint bed z. Partly with clay coating, at the foot of the bearing stones and a pack of fist- to head-sized rolling stones, which in places reached half the height of the bearing stones.
Finds
During the investigation by R. Renner, only the fragment of a square flint chisel, a flint blade with end retouching on both sides and the edge shard of a ceramic were found.
See also
literature
- Hans Hingst: Find Chronicle Schleswig-Holstein . In: Germania 42, 1964, p. 275.
- Hans Hingst: Great stone graves in Schleswig-Holstein . In: Offa 42, 1985, pp. 57-112.
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Coordinates: 54 ° 13 ′ 25.8 ″ N , 9 ° 56 ′ 36.2 ″ E