Great stone graves at Tribohm

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Great stone graves at Tribohm
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Great stone graves near Tribohm (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
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Coordinates Tribohm Fpl. 1 Coordinates: 54 ° 11 '58.7 "  N , 12 ° 35' 50.2"  E , Tribohm Fpl. 15
place Ahrenshagen-Daskow , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.
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The megalithic graves at Tribohm were three to five megalithic graves of the Neolithic funnel cup culture at Tribohm , a district of Ahrenshagen-Daskow in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). Three of them were archaeologically examined by Friedrich von Hagenow in 1824 .

location

Grave 1 was after von Hagenow east of Tribohm, about 60-80 paces (about 45-60 m) north of the bridge. Grave 2 was directly on the left on the way to Zornow , 200 paces (approx. 150 m) from the bridge and 800–1000 paces (approx. 600–750 m) northeast of the church . Grave 3 was about 800 paces (approx. 600 m) northwest of the Tribohm estate. The preserved grave Fpl. 1 is located west of Tribohm on the northern edge of a forest. The grave Fpl. 15 is about 1 km south-southeast of this, also in a wooded area. Grave Fpl. 1 could possibly be identical to von Hagenow's grave 3, but deviating directions and distances as well as the building description make this appear unlikely. The megalithic graves are located about 3 km to the southeast at Semlow .

description

Preserved graves

Grave Fpl. 1

Only three stones remain from this grave, which do not allow any conclusions to be drawn about the original appearance of the complex. The largest one could be a capstone.

Grave Fpl. 15

This grave is an oval mound with several stones. The classification as a large stone grave is not guaranteed, a burial mound would also be possible.

Destroyed graves

Grave 1

The boulders in the grave had already been blown up before von Hagenow's investigation into the extraction of building material for a wall. An exact reconstruction of the original appearance of the complex was therefore not possible. However, there were still “the chambers of flat stones that usually occur in these graves”. This seems to have meant a pavement or the division of the chamber into quarters by vertically placed stone slabs. Von Hagenow found some ceramic shards among grave goods and a flint blade in the overburden .

Grave 2

Grave 2 had a north-south oriented burial chamber with a length of 20 feet (about 6 m) and a width of 6 feet (about 1.8 m). The wall stones on the western long side and the cap stones had already been blown up and removed before the investigation. The interior of the chamber was divided into several quarters. The southern quarters were empty, but von Hagenow found numerous bones and grave goods in the middle of the chamber. He found human skull, lower jaw, pelvic, arm and leg bones, but gave no information about how many individuals they belonged to. There were also deer bones and fragments of antlers as well as the fragment of an ax and four blades and four flint chisels .

Grave 3

In von Hagenow's investigation, only the two long sides of grave 3 were reasonably intact. He did not give any details about the dimensions and orientation of the chamber. Among the grave goods he found only a blade and a chisel made of flint.

literature

  • Rudolf Baier (Ed.): Prehistoric graves on Rügen and in New Western Pomerania. Friedrich von Hagenow's notes from the papers he left behind. Abel, Greifswald 1904, pp. 24-25.
  • 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. 4.
  • Hansdieter Berlekamp : News about destroyed large stone graves on the island of Rügen. In: Greifswald-Stralsund yearbook. Volume 2, 1962, p. 9.
  • Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 117.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 75.

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