Great stone graves near Kuppentin
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 28 '42.1 " N , 12 ° 10' 21.6" E | ||
| place | Gallin-Kuppentin , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
The megalithic graves near Kuppentin were at least three megalithic graves from the Neolithic funnel beaker culture near Kuppentin , a district of Gallin-Kuppentin in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). They were destroyed in the 19th century. Two of the graves were archaeologically examined in 1844 under the direction of Johann Ritter . The finds made in the process are now in the collection of the Archaeological State Museum Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Schwerin .
location
The graves were located to the southwest of Kuppentin on a sandy hill between Altenlinden (formerly Gut Malchow) and the Kuppentiner lock, which was once located on the Müritz-Elde waterway , near the sheep pans. According to Johann Ritter, “fairly large stones protrude from the sand in several places. Usually there are 2 to 4 such stones next to each other and the sand is raised in between, so that all these places are probably the remains of barrows or stone boxes. ”So there were probably more than the three structures described in more detail. To the north-west were the megalithic graves near Gallin , to the northeast, the Plauerhagen megalithic grave .
description
Grave 1
The first grave was destroyed in 1838 without further investigation. According to the present description it had a pile of earth from which at least two stones protruded. Ewald Schuldt classified the complex as an ancient dolmen . A narrow chisel made of flint was recovered from the grave , which was given to the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology in 1843 .
Grave 2
Three stones from grave 2 were still preserved in 1844, which apparently were no longer in situ . They were two stones, about 8 feet (2.4 m) apart in a north-south direction . A third stone lay between them. To the west of this stone was a burn layer six feet long and wide. The floor of the chamber was paved with annealed flint and coarse gravel. According to Ewald Schuldt, the facility was an extended dolmen . The only burial object that was found was a thick- necked hollow ax made of gray flint.
Grave 3
At grave 3, three wall stones of the grave chamber were still preserved in situ. They stood at right angles to each other and formed the southeastern end of the chamber. Two more stones were discovered lying in the middle of the chamber. According to Ewald Schuldt, this facility was also an extended dolmen. At the eastern end of the two lying stones, a fragment of a beaker decorated with string was found from a reburial of the end neolithic individual grave culture .
literature
- A flint chisel. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 9, 1844, pp. 21-22 ( 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. 19.
- Robert Beltz : The Stone Age sites in Meklenburg. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 64, 1899, p. 104 ( 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. 109 ( 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.
- Johann Ritter : Hune graves near Kuppentin. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 10, 1845, p. 268 ( online ).
- Roland Schroeder : The northern group of Oderschnurkeramik (= prehistoric research. Volume 14). De Gruyter, Berlin 1951, p. 129, plate 9/6.
- Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 4. Schwerin 1901, p. 633 ( online ).
- Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 128.