Great stone graves near Morsum
| Great stone graves near Morsum | |||
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 Former location of the graves |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 51 '43.5 " N , 8 ° 26' 45.7" E | ||
| place | Morsum , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 and 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 10 | ||
The megalithic graves near Morsum were two Neolithic graves near the Morsum district of the municipality of Sylt on the island of Sylt . The megalithic system of the funnel beaker culture (TBK) was created between 3500 and 2800 BC. Chr.
description
The remains of the graves destroyed in 1905 are located about one kilometer southwest of the Morsum School. Ernst Sprockhoff summarized both in his atlas of the megalithic tombs under number 10. Karl Kersten mentions two other graves that have since been completely destroyed. The remains that still exist are two north-south oriented dolmens . The grave mounds surrounding them are round in shape, flat and heavily plowed over. Its edges are washed out. Its diameter is 10 m and its height 0.2 m. Surrounding stones are no longer available. The burial chambers probably originally had two capstones each. The north ends had a single capping stone and the south ends had a half-height entry stone.
See also
literature
- Karl Kersten , Peter La Baume: Prehistory of the North Frisian Islands. The prehistoric and early historical monuments and finds in Schleswig-Holstein 3. Neumünster 1958, pp. 514, 521–522.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 1: Schleswig-Holstein . Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966, p. 4.