Great stone graves near Mestlin
The megalithic graves near Mestlin were at least three megalithic tombs from the Neolithic funnel beaker culture near Mestlin in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). They were destroyed in the 19th century.
location
Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch states that there were numerous prehistoric tombs in Mühlenholz, south-southwest of Mestlin, including several that are covered “with mighty granite blocks”. These include graves 1 and 3; possibly there were other large stone graves there. Grave 2 was "on the field marrow of Mestlin [...] on the hooves of the leaseholder Müller."
description
Grave 1
Grave 1 was destroyed in 1861. It had a round or oval mound and a stone enclosure. It had a burial chamber of unknown orientation and size. The exact type of grave is therefore unclear. The chamber was divided into several quarters and was paved with annealed flint . Traces of fire and charcoal were discovered in several places.
Several human skeletons were discovered, but most of them were destroyed by the workers. From the rescued bones, it was evident that at least two individuals had been buried. Numerous grave goods were also found. This was a shard of the edge of a reddish-brown conical bowl with zigzag decoration, the edge of a bowl with an arch stamp decoration, probably from a reburial of the spherical amphora culture , a shard from the lower part of a spherical amphora , a flat ax made of dark gray flint, two narrow chisels , a thin-bladed hatchet, a thick-nosed hatchet made of gray-green rock, another hatchet, a boar - tusk and another animal tooth. The animal's teeth, a hatchet, and a chisel are lost; the remaining finds are now in the collection of the Archaeological State Museum Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Schwerin .
Grave 2
Grave 2 is merely described as “a hill exposed with large stones.” Information on the orientation and dimensions are not available. The type of grave is unclear. When the tomb was destroyed in 1865, several additions were found. It was a thick-nosed ax, the fragment of another thick-nosed ax, both made of flint, an ax made of diorite , possibly from a reburial of the Cord Ceramic Culture , a pierced hoe made of diorite and a grater made of diorite. With the exception of the lost Reiber, these finds are also in Schwerin today. Ingeburg Nilius doubted that all the finds, especially the hoe, actually came directly from the grave.
Grave 3
There is no more detailed description of grave 3. Several objects were recovered here around 1870. It was a hatchet diorite, a hatchet of flint, a narrow chisel of flint, a funnel-shaped pierced oval sling-stone of granite and a black whorls . The finds came into private hands, their whereabouts are unclear.
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. 21.
- 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, pp. 109-110 ( 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. Panel tape. Reimer, Berlin 1910, plate 10/73.
- Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : megalithic grave of Mestlin. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 27, 1862, pp. 165-168 ( online ).
- Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch: Hünengrab von Mestlin No. 2 (cf. Jahrb. XXVII, p. 165). In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 31, 1866, p. 58 ( online ).
- Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch: Hünengrab von Mestlin (cf. Jahrb. XXVII, p. 165 flgd.). In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 36, 1871, p. 131 ( 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. 99.
- Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 4. Schwerin 1901, p. 419 ( online ).
- Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 130.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 37.
