Great stone graves near Neumühl
| Great stone graves near Neumühl | |||
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| Coordinates | Neumühl 1 , Neumühl 2 , Neumühl 3 | ||
| place | Gremersdorf-Buchholz , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | - | ||
The megalithic graves near Neumühl are three megalithic tombs of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Neumühl , a district of Gremersdorf-Buchholz in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ).
location
Graves 1 and 2 are located northwest of Neumühl, on both sides of the road to Grenzin . Grave 1 is about 200 m north of the road. Grave 2 is just 150 m south of the road and 340 m south-southeast of grave 1. Grave 3 is 1 km east. A Bronze Age burial mound is located 120 m to the south . The large stone grave Grenzin is located about 1.5 km north-northeast of grave 1 .
description
Grave 1
At the location of grave 1 there are numerous larger stones around a group of trees. However, it can no longer be determined which belonged to the burial chamber and which are reading stones .
Grave 2
Grave 2 has a north-west-south-east oriented burial chamber. Two wall stones on the southwest long side, the southeast end stone and two cap stones are still preserved. The wall stones are all inclined outwards. The exact type of grave cannot be determined with certainty. Due to the size of the chamber, it could only have been a large dolmen or a passage grave.
Grave 3
No further information is available about grave 3.
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. 13.
- Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 124.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Grave 1 , Grave 2 , Grave 3 (listed here as a burial mound)
- KLEKs Online: Grave 1 , Grave 2 , Grave 3
- strahlen.org: Grave 2 (with grave 1)