Great stone graves near Remlin
The megalithic graves near Remlin were two megalithic tombs of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Remlin , a district of Schwasdorf in the Rostock district ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). The facilities were destroyed in the 1840s.
Location and naming
Originally there were at least six large stone graves between Remlin, Klein Wüstenfelde , Gehmkendorf and Schwasdorf, of which only two still exist today (the Schwasdorf large stone grave and the Gehmkendorf 1 large stone grave ). The graves were named and numbered differently by different authors. In the following, the system will be adopted by Schuldt. The large stone graves of Remlin were located near the manor at Hellertannen-Kamp.
| MJB | Sprockhoff | Schuldt / Beier | List of monuments | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | Remlin 2 (393) | Gehmkendorf 1 | Klein Wüstenfelde 2 | |
| - | Remlin 3 (394) | Walking village 2 | Klein Wüstenfelde 2 (?) | destroyed |
| Remlin 1 | Remlin 4 | Walking village 3 | - | destroyed |
| Remlin 2 | - | Remlin 1 | - | destroyed |
| Remlin 3 | - | Remlin 2 | - | destroyed |
| - | Remlin 1 (392) | Schwasdorf | Klein Wüstenfelde 1 |
History of research and destruction
Grave 1 was uncovered in the winter of 1842/43 by the landowner Friedrich Franz Elias von Kardorff and removed in the fall of 1843. Grave 2 had already been excavated.
description
Grave 1
Grave 1 was an ancient dolmen . The stone enclosure was still preserved in 1843, but a mound can no longer be seen. The burial chamber was probably slightly sunk into the ground and consisted of a capstone and several wall stones. There is no information about alignment and dimensions. When the chamber was opened, no skeletal remains or grave goods were found, only when the stones were sunk outside the chamber were objects discovered. It was an ax made of dark green stone and fragments of a small ceramic vessel supposedly filled with ashes. The ax can be assigned to the late Neolithic ceramic cord culture and, like the vessel, probably comes from a subsequent burial . The vessel has not been preserved, the ax is now in the possession of the Archaeological State Museum Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Schwerin .
Grave 2
No information is available on the orientation, dimensions and type of grave 2. Finds from this grave are not known.
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. 37.
- 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, p. 117 ( online ).
- Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : Hünengrab von Remlin, No. 2, No. 3. In: Year book of the association for Mecklenburg history and antiquity. Volume 9, 1844, p. 365 ( online ).
- Ingeburg Nilius : The Neolithic in Mecklenburg at the time and with special consideration of the funnel cup culture (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of the districts of Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg. Volume 5). Museum for Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1971, p. 103, No. 100.
- Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 138.