Great stone graves near Łupawa
| Great stone graves near Łupawa Great stone graves near Lupow | |||
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| Coordinates | Łupawa 2 , Łupawa 3 , Łupawa 4 , Łupawa 5 , Łupawa 6 , Łupawa 7 , Łupawa 8 , Łupawa 9 | ||
| place | Gmina Potęgowo OT Łupawa , Pomerania , Poland | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 587-594 | ||
The megalithic graves near Łupawa (also called megalithic graves near Lupow ) are a group of eight surviving megalithic graves from the Neolithic funnel beaker culture near Łupawa ( German Lupow ), a district of Gmina Potęgowo (German Pottangow ) in the Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland . They have the Sprockhoff numbers 587-594. A ninth grave was destroyed in the 19th century.
location
The eight preserved graves are located about 3 km east-southeast of Łupawa in a forest area on the north bank of the river Łupawa . They are close to each other. There are numerous burial mounds in the same forest area . The destroyed grave 9 was north of Łupawa, east of the road to Poganice (German Poganitz ).
There are several other large stone graves in the vicinity: 2.2 km to the south there are the large stone graves at Gogolewko (large stone graves near Neu Jugelow) and 2.3 km north-northeast the large stone graves at Dąbrówno (large stone graves near Schöneichen).
description
The preserved graves
Grave 1
Grave 1 has a north-west-south-east oriented trapezoidal barrow with a length of originally about 32.5 m and a width of 7 m in the north-west and 4 m in the south-east. A pile of hills is not recognizable. The enclosure is still in good condition and has only a few gaps. The north-western face has larger stones than the remaining sides. A blasted stone has an original height of 1.4 m and a width of 1 m. Towards the southeast, the surrounding stones get smaller and smaller and at the end are only head-sized. A burial chamber cannot be made out, the complex is to be addressed as a chamberless giant bed .
Grave 2
Grave 2 has a north-west-south-east oriented trapezoidal barn bed originally about 33 m long and 5.5 m wide in the north-west and 4 m in the south-east. The mound has a preserved height of between 0.7 m and 0.8 m. Only a few stones remain from the enclosure on the long sides and the north-western front side. A burial chamber cannot be made out; the complex is probably a chamberless giant bed.
Grave 3
This facility has an approximately north-south oriented trapezoidal barn bed with a length between 22.5 and 24.5 m and a width of 7 m in the north and 5.5 m in the south. The narrow sides are not parallel, but taper to the east. A pile of hills is not recognizable. The enclosure is largely completely preserved on the western long side, but has larger gaps on the other sides. The largest surrounding stones are at the north end of the bed. The northwest corner stone is 0.9 m high. From the fifth stone onwards, the height decreases further and further towards the south, at the southern end they are almost at ground level. Three stones lying inside the bed may be the remains of a burial chamber.
Grave 4
Grave 4 has a north-east-south-west oriented trapezoidal barn with a length of 24.5 m and a width of 6.5 m in the north-east and 3 m in the south-west. A pile of hills is only very faint. The enclosure is still quite well preserved, but has a few gaps on the long sides. The largest enclosing stones are on the north-eastern end. They are much smaller on the other sides, some of them are just rolling stones . Some of the stones lying around inside the bed could be the remains of a burial chamber or two.
Grave 5
The facility has a north-west-south-east oriented trapezoidal barren bed with a length of 24.5 m and a width of 7 m in the south-east and 5 m in the north-west. A pile of hills is only very faint. The enclosure is only partially preserved. The largest stones with a height of about 1 m are on the south-eastern face. They are much smaller on the other sides. On the long sides, enclosing stones are only present in the south-eastern part and in the north-western corner. A burial chamber cannot be made out; the complex is probably a chamberless giant bed.
Grave 6
Grave 6 has a north-west-south-east oriented trapezoidal barn bed with a length of 23.5 m and a width of 6.5 m in the south-east and 4 m in the north-west. A pile of hills is hardly noticeable. The enclosure is still well preserved on the narrow sides. On the south-western long side it has larger gaps and on the north-eastern narrow side most of the stones are missing. The southeastern face has the largest stones. A burial chamber cannot be made out; the complex is probably a chamberless giant bed.
Grave 7
From this complex only the southern part of a north-south oriented trapezoidal barn bed is preserved. The preserved length is 8 m, the width 5.5 m in the south and 4 m in the north. A pile of hills is not recognizable. The enclosure is still well preserved on the southern front. Here are also the largest stones. The southeast corner stone is 0.8 m high. Some smaller stones are still preserved on the long sides. They are very deep in the earth. A burial chamber cannot be made out; the complex is probably a chamberless giant bed.
Grave 8
Grave 8 has an east-west oriented trapezoidal barn bed with a length of about 30 m and a width of 8.5 m in the east and 3.5 m in the west. A pile of hills is only faintly recognizable. The enclosure is still well preserved on the eastern front. The stones here have a height of at least 1.2 m. The first and third stone seen from the south have been blown up. There are significantly smaller stones on the long sides. The north side has larger gaps, on the south side only a few stones in the eastern part are preserved. The stones on the western narrow side are, in turn, larger than those on the long sides. A burial chamber cannot be made out; the complex is probably a chamberless giant bed.
The destroyed grave 9
The destroyed grave consisted of a cairn with an adjoining elongated stone setting, which was divided into several sections by transversal divisions. No information is available on the dimensions or alignment of the system. The exact type of grave can no longer be determined.
literature
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, pp. 99-100.
- Albert Voss : The investigation of megalithic beds near Klemm, Cammin district in Hinter-Pomerania. In: Journal of Ethnology. Volume 9, 1877, p. 304 ( online ).