Great stone graves near Grüssow

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The megalithic graves near Grüssow were probably four megalithic tombs of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Grüssow , a district of the municipality of Fünfseen in the Mecklenburg Lake District ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). They were destroyed around 1850.

location

The graves were in the field near Grüssow, not far from the estate.

description

All four systems were Urdolmen , which consisted of four wall stones and a cap stone. According to a description by Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch , they had sunk into the ground around 1850 and the capstones had fallen into the interior of the burial chambers . No mounds could be made out. When one of the graves was destroyed, human skeletal remains were discovered. The leg bones were almost completely preserved. Several ceramic shards were found among grave goods. The finds were not kept.

Lisch did not give an exact number of graves. The number of four graves comes from Ewald Schuldt .

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. 34.
  • Robert Beltz : The Stone Age sites in Meklenburg. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 64, 1899, p. 107 ( online ).
  • Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : Stone boxes from Grüssow. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 16, 1851, p. 252 ( online ).
  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 5. Schwerin 1902, p. 462 ( online ).
  • Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 137.