Large stone graves near Grassau

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The megalithic graves near Grassau were three megalithic tombs of the Neolithic deep-engraved ceramic culture near Grassau in the Stendal district , Saxony-Anhalt . All were destroyed in the 19th century.

location

Graves 1 and 2 were located north of Grassau on the left side of the road to Schartau on the parcel "crooked pieces" in the area of ​​the Finschaf desert . Grave 3 was between Grassau and Schmoor near the destroyed church of Finschaf.

Research history

The facilities were first documented in the 1830s by Johann Friedrich Danneil . When the large stone graves of the Altmark were taken up again in the 1890s , Eduard Krause and Otto Schoetensack discovered that all the graves had been completely removed in the meantime as part of the separation .

description

Grave 1

Grave 1 had an enclosure with a length of 15.7 m and a width of 12 m. The burial chamber had a flat capstone with a length of 2.5 m and a width of 2.2 m on the underside. Dimensions or a more precise description of the chamber are not available. It is therefore not possible to determine the type of grave.

Grave 2

Grave 2 had an enclosure with a length of 13.2 m and a width of 10 m. Here, too, there is no description of the chamber, so that the type of grave cannot be determined.

Grave 3

Grave 3 had an enclosure with a length of 13.2 m and a width of 6.6 m. Again, there is no description of the chamber, so that the grave type cannot be determined here either.

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings and the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Volume 1). Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, pp. 59-60.
  • Johann Friedrich Danneil: Special evidence of the barrows in the Altmark. In: Sixth annual report of the Altmark Association for Patriotic History and Industry. 1843, No. 1–3 ( PDF; 5.5 MB ).
  • Eduard Krause, Otto Schoetensack: The megalithic graves (stone chamber graves) of Germany. I. Altmark. In: Journal of Ethnology. Volume 25, 1893, p. 134 / no. 2–4 ( PDF; 39.0 MB ).