Schmölln cemetery
The cemetery of Schmölln in the 100 by 70 meter area "Schmölln 46" with urn graves of the Jastorf culture is located near Schmölln in the Uckermark in Brandenburg and was discovered in 2014 during explorations for construction work near the A11 .
The Iron Age urn graves were mostly covered with stones, some under wheel-like stone paving circles with diameters between one and eight meters. The archaeologists found human and animal bones and 39 urns in the graves. The finds date from the pre-Roman Iron Age , which spanned the period of about 500 years BC. Until the turn of the ages. Paths made of tens of thousands of field stones that run in a straight line - the longest stone setting extends over 105 meters - also lie on the cemetery.
The buried megalithic tomb found on the site was restored almost 1000 years after its abandonment around 3000 BC. Used for subsequent burials . Neolithic earth graves have been found in the immediate vicinity .
For reasons of topography and hydrology, it was not possible to move the rain retention basin planned here. The largest stone circle from the site was reconstructed in 2016 on a central square in the village. The planned reconstruction of the large stone grave in the village has not yet been implemented.
Comparable grave fields are known from mills Eichsen and Groß Timmendorf.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 17 ′ 34.1 ″ N , 14 ° 6 ′ 58.7 ″ E