Great stone graves near Borkowo
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| Coordinates | Borkowo 1 , Borkowo 2 , Borkowo 3 , Borkowo 4 | ||
| place | Malechowo OT Borkowo , West Pomerania , Poland | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 581-584 | ||
The megalithic graves near Borkowo (also called megalithic graves near Borkow ) are four megalithic tombs of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Borkowo ( German Borkow ), a district of Malechowo (German Alt-Malchow ) in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland . They have the Sprockhoff numbers 581-584.
location
The graves are located east of Borkowo and can be reached by road. They are close to each other. Grave 1 is the northernmost. Directly south of it is grave 3, east of this grave 2 and west of this grave 4. In the immediate vicinity there are three burial mounds .
description
Grave 1
The complex has an east-west oriented burial chamber , which, according to Ernst Sprockhoff, can be classified as a passage grave of the Holstein chamber subtype . The chamber has a length of 4.5 m and a width of 1.5 m. It consists of five pairs of wall stones on the long sides, one end stone each on the narrow sides and four more cap stones. The westernmost wall stone on the north side, the easternmost and the second from the west on the south side and the western end stone are still in situ. The remaining wall stones have been moved. The westernmost capstone has slipped a little, but is still on the wall stones. The remaining capstones have sunk into the interior of the chamber. The access to the chamber is probably at the second wall stone from the east, which is 0.5 m lower than the other stones and probably served as a step.
Grave 2
Grave 2 has a remains of a north-east-south-west oriented mound bed with a length of about 30 m. Of the enclosure, only four stones remain on the northwest and six on the southeast long side, none of which are in their original position. A burial chamber is not recognizable.
Grave 3
This complex has an east-west oriented mound bed with a length of about 26 m and a width of 6 m that has been preserved in remnants. Four stones on the western narrow side as well as seven on the northern and eight on the southern long side are still preserved from the enclosure. A burial chamber is not recognizable.
Grave 4
Grave 4 has a heavily destroyed east-west oriented barren bed with a length of 16 m and a width of 8 m. A pile of hills is still faintly recognizable. There are several stones lying around, but they do not allow a reliable reconstruction of the original appearance of the complex.
literature
- Werner Böge: In: News sheet for German prehistory. Volume 16, 1940, p. 171, plate 38.
- Hans Jürgen Eggers (Ed.): Pomeranian finds and excavations from the 30s and 40s. Table volume (= Atlas of Prehistory. Supplement 10). Hamburg Museum of Ethnology and Prehistory, Hamburg 1964, Plates 62, 64a.
- Diether von Kleist : The prehistoric finds of the Schlawe district (= Atlas of prehistory. Supplement 3). Hamburg Museum of Ethnology and Prehistory, Hamburg 1955, p. 24, plate 2, 3.1.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, pp. 97-98.
