Great stone graves near Plau am See

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The megalithic graves near Plau am See (mostly only listed as megalithic graves near Plau in the literature ) were two megalithic tombs of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Plau am See in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). They were destroyed in the 1840s, but could still be archaeologically examined in 1845 under the direction of Johann Ritter .

location

According to Ritter, the two graves were located south of Plau am See “on the Dresen field [Dresenow?], A part of the Plauer Feldmark towards Ganzlin , [...] to the right of the old country road to Meienburg [today B 103 ] a few hundred paces away . "To the south are the megalithic graves near Ganzlin and the megalithic graves near Twietfort: Urdolmen von Twietfort and the megalithic grave Twietfort 2 .

description

Grave 1

Grave 1 was a north-east-south-west oriented large dolmen with a length of 20 feet (approx. 6 m) and a width of 8 feet (approx. 2.4 m). The burial chamber consisted of three wall stones on the long sides, one end stone on the narrow sides and two cap stones. The spaces between the wall stones were filled with dry stone slabs. The chamber floor consisted of a layer of incendiary flint , ash and charcoal . Underneath was the pending soil. On the northeastern endstone, Ritter found a human skeleton that was originally buried in a sitting position. Ritter noticed a strikingly flat forehead on the skull. The skeleton was covered with sandstone slabs. At the south-western end of the chamber, the shards of an undecorated ceramic vessel were found.

Grave 2

Grave 2 was already badly damaged when Ritter examined it. The orientation is not recorded. The chamber was 12 feet (about 4 m) long, 5 feet (about 1.5 m) wide, and 3 feet (0.9 m) high. The end and cap stones had been removed a long time ago. When Ritter examined, only the stones on the long sides were left, but he does not name their number. Due to its size, the Ewald Schuldt Chamber was classified as an extended dolmen . Ritter found stone slabs from the former drywall between the wall stones on the outside of the chamber. Here, too, the floor was paved with annealed flint. In the middle of the chamber, Ritter found the shards of an undecorated, coarse-grained ceramic vessel in a mass of clay .

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. 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, pp. 107-108 ( online ).
  • Johann Ritter : Hünengrab von Plau No. 1, No. 2. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 11, 1846, p. 348 ( online ).
  • Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 128.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, pp. 38-39.