Great stone graves near Karsko
| Great stone graves near Karsko Great stone graves near Schöningsburg | |||
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| Coordinates | Karsko 1 , Karsko 2 | ||
| place | Przelewice OT Karsko , West Pomerania , Poland | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 578-579 | ||
The megalithic graves near Karsko (also called megalithic graves near Schöningsburg ) are two megalithic graves of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Karsko ( German Schöningsburg ), a district of Przelewice (German Prillwitz ) in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland . They have the Sprockhoff numbers 578 and 579.
location
The graves are located east-northeast of Karsko, near the border with Gmina Dolice in a field. Grave 1 is only 4 m south of grave 2.
description
Grave 1
The complex has an approximately east-west oriented, trapezoidal barn bed with a length of 43 m and a width of 7 m on the eastern front side and 4 m on the western narrow side. The mound was originally said to have extended further to the west. Numerous stones have been preserved from the enclosure on the north and south long sides and on the east face. A megalithic burial chamber cannot be made out. Presumably the system is a chamberless giant bed . At the eastern end of the northern long side, however, instead of the enclosure, a grave complex made of rolling stones was found, which may be a Bronze Age reburial .
Grave 2
Grave 2 has an approximately east-west oriented, trapezoidal barn bed with a remaining length of 37 m. The ends of the bed have not been preserved. Its width is 4 m in the west, in the east it should originally have been 5–6 m. The enclosure is still well preserved on the southern long side, but has larger gaps on the northern side. The exact type of grave is unclear. At the southwest corner is a larger stone that could have belonged to a burial chamber. However, there is no further evidence of a chamber, so that this could also be a chamberless giant bed.
literature
- Gertrud Dorka : Prehistory of the Weizacker district Pyritz. Saunier, Stettin 1939, p. 13.
- Hans Jürgen Eggers (Ed.): Pomeranian finds and excavations from the 30s and 40s. Table volume (= Atlas of Prehistory. Supplement 10). Hamburg Museum of Ethnology and Prehistory, Hamburg 1964, Plates 61, 63.
- Robert Holsten , G. Zahnow: The Stone Age graves of the Pyritz district. In: Mannus. Volume 11/12, 1919/20, p. 118.
- Hugo Schumann : The culture of Pomerania in prehistoric times. In: Baltic Studies. Volume 46, 1896, Taf. 1,3 ( online ).
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 94.