Great stone graves near Janow

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Great stone graves near Janow
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Great stone graves near Janow (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
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Coordinates Janow 1 coordinates: 53 ° 46 ′ 12.1 ″  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 6.8 ″  E , Janow 2
place Spantekow , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.
Sprockhoff no. 571-572

The megalithic graves near Janow are two megalithic graves of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Janow , a district of Spantekow in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). They have the Sprockhoff numbers 571 and 572.

location

The graves are 1.6 km south of Janow in a field. They are 30 m apart.

description

Grave 1

Grave 1 has a north-west-south-east oriented, trapezoidal barn bed with a length of 40 m and a width of 9 m in the south-east and 5 m in the north-west. The southeast side of the stone enclosure has been completely preserved, the long sides have some gaps. The north-west side is covered by reading stones. At the north-western end of the bed are the remains of the transverse burial chamber , which Ewald Schuldt calls a large dolmen . The chamber is only visible as a hollow; the stones are not preserved.

Grave 2

Grave 2 is much worse preserved than grave 1. It also has a barren bed that was originally around 35–40 m long. Since it is heavily covered with reading stones, neither the appearance of the stone enclosure nor the burial chamber can be reconstructed more precisely.

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. 23.
  • Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 131.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, pp. 90–91.

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