Great stone graves near Burow

The megalithic graves near Burow were two megalithic tombs of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Burow , a district of Lübz in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). They were destroyed in the 19th century. In 1804 a Friedrich Wilhelm Zinck carried out an excavation.

location

The location of the graves is only given very imprecisely as “on the field of Burow”. About 3–4 km to the north were the large stone graves near Gischow , which were also destroyed in the 19th century . To the west is the Siggelkow stone grave .

description

Grave 1

Grave 1 was a large dolmen of unknown orientation. It had eight wall stones and a single large capstone 11 feet long , 10 feet wide, and 3 feet thick. The bottom of the grave chamber had a Lehmpflaster on. Underneath was the pending sandy soil. The chamber was divided into three quarters by vertical stone slabs. Of grave goods more ceramic shards and were Feuerstein - ax found.

Grave 2

Grave 2 was constructed similarly to grave 1. It also had a large capstone. A pavement or quarters were not found. A large number of ceramic shards and two flint axes were found among grave goods.

Finds of unclear origin

Robert Beltz reports that the collection of the Grand Ducal Museum, today's Archaeological State Museum Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Schwerin , had two human skulls which, according to the description, should come from Zinck's excavation in Burow. It is unclear, however, from which of the graves they came.

See also

• Nordic megalithic architecture
• Types of the Mecklenburg megalithic graves

literature

• Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings as well as the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest. Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe 1. Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 18.
• Robert Beltz : The Stone Age sites in Meklenburg. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 64, 1899, p. 103 ( online ).
• Robert Beltz: The prehistoric antiquities of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Complete list of the finds preserved in the Grand Ducal Museum in Schwerin. Text tape. Reimer, Berlin 1910, p. 107 ( online ).
• Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : Friderico-Francisceum or grand-ducal antiquities collection from the old Germanic and Slavic times of Mecklenburg. Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1837, pp. 25-26, 76 ( online ).
• Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, pp. 127–128.