Large stone graves near Polkern

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The megalithic graves near Polkern were three megalithic graves from the Neolithic deep-engraved ceramic culture near Polkern , a district of Osterburg in the Stendal district , Saxony-Anhalt . All were destroyed in the 19th century.

location

The graves were about 15 minutes south of Polkern on the border with Krevese .

Research history

The three systems were first documented in the 1830s by Johann Friedrich Danneil . When the large stone graves of the Altmark were taken up again in the 1890s , Eduard Krause and Otto Schoetensack discovered that all three graves had been completely removed in the meantime as part of the separation .

description

The graves were already in poor condition when Danneil was taken, so he only gave a general description of all the facilities and did not describe each one individually. The graves therefore had round stone enclosures and mounds that were still quite high. The stones of the burial chambers were already in disarray. Precise measurements and a determination of the grave type were therefore no longer possible.

Finds

There are four objects found in the graves, although it is not clear which object was found in which grave. They were originally part of Danneil's private collection and were later transferred to the Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin . It is a narrow ax made of greywacke with a length of 17.0 cm, a width of 4.6 cm and a thickness of 4.6 cm, a hatchet made of greywacke with a length of 15.2 cm, a width between 2.6 and 6.2 cm and a thickness of 4.0 cm, a flint ax with a length of 15.0 cm, a width of 6.5 cm and a thickness of 21 cm and another flint ax with a length of 11.5 cm, a width of 4.6 cm and a thickness of 1.1 cm.

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings and the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Volume 1). Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 55.
  • Johann Friedrich Danneil: Special evidence of the barrows in the Altmark. In: Sixth annual report of the Altmark Association for Patriotic History and Industry. 1843, No. 21 ( PDF; 5.5 MB ).
  • Eduard Krause, Otto Schoetensack: The megalithic graves (stone chamber graves) of Germany. I. Altmark. In: Journal of Ethnology. Volume 25, 1893, No. 44-46 ( PDF; 39.0 MB ).