Great stone graves near Laage
The large stone graves near Laage were four megalithic graves of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Laage in the Rostock district ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). They were destroyed in the 19th century.
location
The exact location of the graves is not known. Only a few kilometers east on the other bank of the Recknitz was the large stone grave Kronskamp, which was also destroyed in the 19th century .
description
Grave 1
No details are available about the grave itself. Around 1844 a thin - bladed flint hatchet and a flat hammer ax were found here. The ax is now in the collection of the Archaeological State Museum Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Schwerin , the ax has not been preserved.
Grave 2
According to a handwritten report by Professor Schröter from 1804, there was a second grave, which was a "stone box with space for 6-8 people". Conclusions about the type of grave cannot be drawn from this information.
Graves 3 and 4
According to Schröter, two other graves were “2 absorbed. Church yards surrounded with lots of large stones. "
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. 17.
- Robert Beltz : The Stone Age sites in Meklenburg. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 64, 1899, p. 105 ( 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. 115 ( online ).
- Karl Heinz Brandt : Studies on stone axes and hatchets of the Younger Stone Age and the Stone Copper Age of Northwest Germany (= Munster contributions to research on prehistory. Volume 2). Lax, Hildesheim 1967, p. 25.
- Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : megalithic grave of location. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 9, 1844, p. 369 ( 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. 126.