Great stone graves near Karft
| Great stone graves near Karft | |||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 32 '31.6 " N , 11 ° 3' 36.4" E | ||
| place | Wittendbod , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
The megalithic graves at Karft were several megalithic tombs of unknown numbers from the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Karft , a district of Wittendbod in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). They were destroyed in the 19th century. More detailed information is only available about one system. It was examined by Johann Ritter in 1841 .
location
Ritter mentions that there were several large stone graves in the field near Karft. The one he examined was between Karft and Püttelkow , near the Krafter fir trees, where the field flattens out towards the shields . To the east were the megalithic graves near Püttelkow , to the south the megalithic graves near Wittenburg .
description
The grave was an east-west oriented chamberless giant bed with a length of 72 paces (approx. 54 m) and a width of 26 feet (approx. 7.8 m). It had a stone enclosure which, after Ritter's investigation, was removed for the extraction of building material for road construction. Like the surrounding soil, the mound was made of clay-containing sand and was still 3–4 feet (approx. 0.9–1.2 m) high. In the eastern part of the mound, Ritter came across slabs made of red sandstone and fine black, black-brown and coarser yellow-brown ceramic shards, which could no longer be reconstructed into vessels. He also found charcoal and sand mixed with ash above the ground. After a third of its length from the east, the megalithic bed was divided by a transverse row of stones. Immediately behind it, Ritter found a fire pit with a diameter of 1.2 m and a depth of 0.9 m sunk into the ground. Ashes and bones were found here. About 15 m west of the row of stones were a human long bone and a piece of amber .
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. 18.
- Robert Beltz : The Stone Age sites in Meklenburg. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 64, 1899, p. 101 ( online ).
- Robert Beltz: The prehistoric antiquities of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Complete list of the finds preserved in the Grand Ducal Museum in Schwerin. Text tape. Reimer, Berlin 1910, p. 104 ( online ).
- Johann Ritter : Barrow of Karft (near Wittenburg). In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 7, 1842, pp. 18-19 ( [1] ).
- Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 3. Schwerin 1900, p. 154 ( online ).
- Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 127.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 34.