Flat graves near Basedow
The flat graves at Basedow date from the Bronze Age . They are located near Basedow in the Mecklenburg Lake District ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ) and were found near the stone box . A second grave site was uncovered about 5.0 kilometers away. The area around Basedow is rich in prehistoric graves. This also includes the two large dolms of the large stone graves at Basedow and several dozen burial mounds .
The place of discovery is the "Fuchsberg", the ridge of a ridge between the lowlands on the lake and the moor. Here in 1898 several skeletons were found lying free in the ground at a depth of 30 to 40 cm when the road was being built. Larger stone settings were missing. The dead seem to have been surrounded by a stone border. Nothing was observed about their positioning and orientation. Two splendid flint daggers lay by a corpse . The handle of one was finely crumbled, smooth at the bottom, rhombic, the blade was provided with small parallel shells. It was gray and 10 inches long. The largest width of the sheet was about 4.0 cm. The width of the handle was 3.75 cm at the bottom. The second dagger was simpler and about 18.0 cm long, shorter. In the adjacent "Basedower Meadows" a dagger of 20 cm length was found during peat extraction as early as 1896, which is identical to the second. The better-made daggers and the flat graves without large stone setting belong to the period that in Denmark is called the dagger period (2350 to 1700 BC).
literature
- Robert Beltz: Flachgräber von Basedow In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology, Volume 64 (1899), pp. 124–125