Great stone graves near Dargelin

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Great stone graves near Dargelin
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Great stone graves near Dargelin (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
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Coordinates Dargelin 1 coordinates: 54 ° 0 ′ 19.7 ″  N , 13 ° 21 ′ 3.6 ″  E , Dargelin 2
place Dargelin , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.
Sprockhoff no. 549-550

The megalithic graves near Dargelin are two megalithic graves from the Neolithic funnel beaker culture near Dargelin in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). They have the Sprockhoff numbers 549 and 550.

location

The graves are located about 1 km south of Dargelin in a field, a few meters north of a hedge. Grave 2 is located 40 m east-southeast of grave 1. 650 and 800 m to the west are the two large stone graves at Neu Negentin and 3 km west of the Klein Zastrow large stone grave .

description

Grave 1

Grave 1 has a burial chamber , which is a north-south oriented large dolmen in a rolling stone hill. Ernst Sprockhoff found all three pairs of wall stones on the long sides and the northern end stone in situ when he took the photo in 1931 . The southern capstone is missing; maybe there was just a narrow stone here, marking the entrance. Only a fragment of a single one of the capstones has survived. It fell inside the chamber and has several bowls . The chamber has a length of 3.5 m and a width of 1.4 m. It is filled with earth up to about 50 cm below the upper edge of the wall stones, so that it can be assumed that the burials are still largely intact.

Grave 2

Grave 2 is also an approximately north-south oriented large dolmen. The mound has a width of 1.5 m around the burial chamber. Of the wall stones, three of the western and one of the eastern long sides have been preserved in situ. The northern end stone and the adjoining stone of the east wall are tilted outwards. The southern capstone is missing; here, too, there is probably only a flat stone at the entrance to the chamber. At the north end a capstone has sunk into the interior of the chamber. It has a length of 2.5 m, a width of 1.5 m and a thickness of 0.9 m. The stone has two bowls. The chamber has a length of 3.5 m and a width of 1.4 m. It is also filled with earth up to about 50 cm below the upper edge of the wall stones, so that the burials should still be intact here too.

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. 2.
  • Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 116.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 83.

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