Large stone graves near Kellenhusen
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| Coordinates | Kellenhusen 1 , Kellenhusen 2 , Kellenhusen 3 | ||
| place | Kellenhusen (Baltic Sea) , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 280-281 | ||
The large stone graves near Kellenhusen are at least two megalithic graves of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Kellenhusen (Baltic Sea) in the Ostholstein district in Schleswig-Holstein . They have the Sprockhoff numbers 280 and 281. In the case of a third submerged site, it is unclear whether it is another grave or a natural collection of stones.
location
Grave 1 is located north of Kellenhusen in a forest. Grave 2 is located northeast of the village, directly on the beach and 2.4 km southeast of grave 1. The possible third grave is located southwest of grave 2 and about 100 m from the beach in the Baltic Sea . The large stone grave Dahme is located 330 m north of grave 2 .
description
Grave 1
The complex has an almost north-south oriented burial chamber , which is a passage grave of the Holstein chamber sub-type with a length of 4 m and a width of 1.5 m. A pile of mounds is no longer preserved. The chamber originally had three pairs of wall stones on the long sides and one end stone each on the narrow sides. The three wall stones on the east side and the southern end stone have been preserved. The northern and middle wall stones on the east side have been moved, the southern one is still in situ . The southern end stone is also almost in situ. Two stones to the west and one south of the chamber cannot be assigned with certainty. Perhaps one of the western stones is a capstone. The original access to the chamber was located between the northern and central stone on the eastern side. In front of it is a corridor with two wall stones that are still in situ. The corridor is 0.5 m wide.
Grave 2
This heavily disturbed complex has a northeast-southwest oriented burial chamber, which is an enlarged dolmen with a length of 2.2 m and a width of 1.2 m. A pile of mounds is no longer preserved. Ernst Sprockhoff was able to identify three pairs of wall stones on the long sides and one capping stone each on the narrow sides when he took his picture in 1959. The capstones were already missing. The south-western end stone only took up half of the narrow side and thus left an access to the chamber at the south-eastern corner. In the meantime, apart from two wall stones on the south-eastern long side, all stones seem to have disappeared.
Possible grave 3
The third site is only visible when the water is very low . No information is available on their exact structure. A scientific investigation has not yet taken place. It is therefore unclear whether it is really a large stone grave or a natural pile of stones.
literature
- Ernst-Günter Kannenberg: The Neolithic grave on the beach wall near Dahmer Moor and its questionable significance for dating the end of the Litorina transgression. In: Writings of the Natural Science Association for Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 28, 1956, pp. 17-22 ( PDF; 404 KB ).
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 1: Schleswig-Holstein. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966, p. 76.
- Ernst Brave: Marine History of the Bay of Kiel and Lübeck in the Postglacial. In: Geology of the Seas and Inland Waters. Volume 4, 1940, pp. 113-123.