Wrangelsburg shallow grave
The Wrangelsburg shallow grave is located on the route of the European gas connection pipeline ( EUGAL ), south of Wrangelsburg in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and dates from the late Neolithic period .
The 3.8 × 1.9 m, 0.75 m deep, sand-filled pit lay beneath the northwest-southeast oriented cover of large field stones. The walls of the pit consisted of layers of medium-sized field stones. A dark discoloration suggested a tree coffin supported by rows of stones at the side and resting on four rectangular boulders .
On the bottom there were two lanceolate flint daggers of type I after Ebbe Lomborg, which possibly point to a double burial. The 14.3 cm long smaller dagger lay in the southeastern part, the 23.0 cm long in the center of the grave. Both are well preserved and of a similar shape. Only a tooth remnant of the skeleton was preserved in the northwest quarter of the complex.
Lomborg type I lancet-shaped daggers rarely reach lengths of more than 20 cm. They occur during the Late Neolithic, possibly in the Early Bronze Age . In Germany, graves with daggers are mainly known from Western Pomerania and Rügen, where they are particularly common.
literature
- Ebbe Lomborg: The Flint Daggers Denmark Studies of Chronology and Cultural Relationships of the South Scandinavian Late Neolithic 1973