Great stone graves near Klein Methling

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Great stone graves near Klein Methling
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Great stone graves near Klein Methling (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
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Coordinates Klein Methling 1 coordinates: 53 ° 59 ′ 25 ″  N , 12 ° 48 ′ 59.6 ″  E , Klein Methling 2
place Dargun , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.
Sprockhoff no. 386
Klein Methling grave 1

The large stone graves near Klein Methling are two megalithic graves of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Klein Methling , a district of Dargun in the Mecklenburg Lake District ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). Grave 1 bears the Sprockhoff number 386.

location

The two graves are located about 3 km north of Klein Methling on the north-eastern edge of the small forest area Hinterholm. Grave 1 is directly on a street, grave 2 is 40 m south of it.

description

Grave 1

Grave 1 has an approximately north-south oriented, trapezoidal barren bed with a length of just under 80.0 m (previously stated as 27 m) and a width of 5.5 m on the northern end face, which was newly determined in 2018. Several stones of the two long sides and the northern narrow side are still preserved from the enclosure. The stones are largest in the north and get smaller in the south. The hills fill has a rolling stone -Packung. The burial chamber at the northern end of the megalithic bed was destroyed in 1832 for the extraction of building material. Their location is still recognizable as a pit. In the northeast corner there are some capstones, some of which have been blown up, and another has been dragged to the south. In destroying one were Klingenstichel of brown red flint and a narrow chisel made of gray flint found and the Association of Mecklenburg History and Archeology via suitable. Today they are in the collection of the Archaeological State Museum Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Schwerin .

Grave 2

Grave 2 has a heavily damaged mound bed with a preserved row of surrounding stones. The burial chamber no longer exists.

literature

  • Hun grave of Kl. Methling (near Gnoien). In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 3, 1838, pp. 35-36 ( online ).
  • Barrows. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 4, 1839, p. 70 ( online ).
  • 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. 27.
  • Robert Beltz : The Stone Age sites in Meklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 64, 1899, p. 97 ( 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, pp. 114-115 ( online ).
  • Ingeburg Nilius : The Neolithic in Mecklenburg at the time and with special consideration of the funnel cup culture (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of the districts of Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg. Volume 5). Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1971, p. 97.
  • Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 134.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 28.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In: Archeology in Germany AiD 02/2018 p. 44

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