Great stone graves near Grevenkrug
| Great stone graves near Grevenkrug | |||
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| Coordinates | Grevenkrug 1 , Grevenkrug 2 , Grevenkrug 3 | ||
| place | Grevenkrug , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 170-171 | ||
The megalithic graves near Grevenkrug are a group of three megalithic tombs of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Grevenkrug in the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district in Schleswig-Holstein . Graves 1 and 2 have the Sprockhoff numbers 170 and 171. The third grave has the number Grevenkrug LA 24 and was archaeologically examined by Joachim Kühl in 1970 .
location
The graves are located northeast of Grevenkrug in the district of Waldsiedlung . Grave 1 is the middle one. Grave 2 is 200 m east-northeast and grave 3 110 m south.
description
Grave 1
This complex has a north-south oriented megalithic bed with a length of about 25 m and a width between 6 m and 8 m. All of the surrounding stones have been removed; a channel that was created during the stone clearing can still be clearly seen. The mound has a height of 1.5 m and in places a flat top. The mound has two pits, the larger of which in the south should mark the original location of the destroyed burial chamber . Due to the small size of the pit, the chamber may only have been a small dolmen .
Grave 2
This system has a mound that has been reduced in size in modern times and today still has a diameter of 8 m. The burial chamber is probably a north-west-south-east oriented extended dolmen with a length of 2.2 m and a width of 1.5 m. Only the two wall stones on the south-western long side and the north-western end stone are preserved in situ . Two stones lying around cannot be assigned with certainty.
Grave 3
This complex has a north-north-east-south-south-west oriented burial chamber, which is an enlarged dolmen with a length of 2.2 m and a width of 1.3 m. The chamber originally consisted of two pairs of wall stones on the long sides and one end stone each on the narrow sides. During the excavation in 1970 the lower parts of the two blown western wall stones and the outwardly overturned southern end stone were found. Of the remaining wall stones, only the standing pits were found. The cap stones were also missing. The original access to the chamber is likely to have been on the northern narrow side. From the former shell of the chamber were still a 40 cm wide layer of flint - Grus and irregularly lying around boulders present. The chamber plaster was only preserved in a 60 cm wide zone at the north end. It consisted of a lower layer of pebbles, on which a 3 cm thick layer of burnt flint gravel and then a layer of clay followed. Burial remains or grave goods were not found.
literature
- Hans Hingst : Great stone graves in Schleswig-Holstein. In: Offa. Volume 42, 1985, p. 75.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 1: Schleswig-Holstein. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966, p. 46.