Great stone graves near Ramsdorf
| Great stone graves near Ramsdorf | |||
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| Coordinates | Ramsdorf 1 , Ramsdorf 2 , Ramsdorf 3 | ||
| place | Owschlag OT Ramsdorf , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 71-72 | ||
The megalithic graves near Ramsdorf were originally three megalithic graves of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Ramsdorf , a district of Owschlag in the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district in Schleswig-Holstein . Only two of these still exist today. The preserved graves 1 and 2 bear the Sprockhoff numbers 71 and 72. Grave 1 was archaeologically examined by Ernst Sprockhoff in 1956 and later moved 400 m from its original location. Grave 2 was examined by Wilhelm Splieth in 1896 . The remains of a destroyed third grave with the site number Ramsdorf LA 37 were examined by Volker Vogel in 1968 .
location
Grave 1 was originally located east of Ramsdorf and 250 m west of the road leading south from Brekendorf at the level of Hof Langenberg. Since it was endangered by the construction of the A 7 , it was moved about 400 m to the southeast to the state road 265 in the 1960s. Grave 2 is located south-southeast of Ramsdorf and 1.9 km west-southwest of grave 1 in a field. The destroyed grave 3 was north-west of Ramsdorf and 960 m north-north-west of grave 2 in a field.
description
Grave 1
The complex originally had a round mound with a stone enclosure. The burial chamber is an east-west oriented extended dolmen . It consists of two pairs of wall stones on the long sides, two end stones on the western narrow side, one end stone on the southern half and a half-height entry stone on the northern half of the eastern narrow side as well as two cap stones. All stones were still in situ when Sprockhoff examined them . The western capstone has a length of 2.5 m, a width of 1.75 m and a thickness of 0.8 m. It has several bowls on its top . There is also a bowl on the eastern capstone. The access on the east side of the chamber was originally closed with a stone slab that was found to the east outside the chamber.
Grave 2
The complex has a burial chamber with a length of 2.2 m, a width of 1.8 m and a height of 1.3 m. During the investigation in 1896, nine wall stones and two cap stones were still preserved. When he was photographed in 1956, Sprockhoff could only find five or six wall stones.
Grave 3
The complex had a north-east-south-west oriented burial chamber, which was probably a large dolmen with a length of 4.5 m and a width of 1.5 m. During the excavation, three wall stones were found on the north-western long side and four wall stones on the south-eastern long side. Gaps indicate that there was originally another wall stone on each long side. On the north-eastern narrow side, the shoulder of a wide terminal stone was found. The south-western narrow side probably had two closing stones, which is indicated by the arched shape of the chamber pavement and some stone slabs found there. The wall stones originally stood in a ring of flint - grus and an order of clay interspersed with flint . The gaps in the wall stones were filled with dry stone slabs, of which the lower layers could still be identified on the long sides. The chamber was probably originally enclosed by a clay packing and above it by a coat of rolling stones , of which remnants could still be found. The entrance to the chamber was probably on the southwest narrow side, but it could not be precisely located.
Numerous grave goods were discovered inside the chamber. In addition to ceramic shards, this included a fragment of an ax made of rock, several flint tools (a hatchet , a hollow hatchet , a fragment of a chisel , a handle of a dagger , a heart-shaped arrowhead , two cross-edged arrowheads, a blade and fragments of other blades) and amber - Jewelry (one button, one double-axed pearl , 13 round and three cylindrical pearls). Outside the chamber, more ceramic shards and six fragments of flint blades were found.
literature
- Hans Hingst : Great stone graves in Schleswig-Holstein. In: Offa. Volume 42, 1985, p. 82.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 1: Schleswig-Holstein. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966, pp. 23–24.