Great stone graves near Vilz

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Great stone graves near Vilz
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Great stone graves near Vilz (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
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Coordinates 54 ° 0 '57.5 "  N , 12 ° 30' 42.9"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 0 '57.5 "  N , 12 ° 30' 42.9"  E
place Ticino , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.
Sprockhoff no. 366

The megalithic graves near Vilz were three megalithic tombs from the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Vilz , a district of Ticino in the Rostock district ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). Today there is only one grave. It bears the Sprockhoff number 366. The other two systems were destroyed in the late 19th or early 20th century.

location

Grave 1 is located in the southeast of Vilz, directly on the north side of Gnoiener Chaussee. According to Friedrich Schlie, graves 2 and 3 were about 500 paces (approx. 380 m) northeast of the church in Vilz on a field and were 200 paces (approx. 150 m) apart. 2.8 km east-northeast of grave 1 is the Kowalz large stone grave .

description

Grave 1

The grave originally had a north-west-south-east oriented, rectangular barn bed , of which only parts of the enclosure have survived. There are still four stones on the north-eastern long side in a row. In which likewise northwest-southeast oriented grave chamber is a passage grave of subtype Holstein Chamber . On the long sides, three wall stones have been preserved, all of which are in situ apart from the southernmost stone on the southwest side . The north-western end stone is also in situ, the south-eastern one has been moved. Two of the original three capstones are still present. The southeastern one is the larger one. It has a length of 2.6 m, a width of 2.3 m and a thickness of 1.3 m. The stone is broken in two and has numerous bowls . A bowl can be seen on the second capstone. The chamber has a length of 4 m and a width of 2 m. There is a gap between the two north-western wall stones of the south-western long side, which probably marks the entrance to the chamber. No stones have been preserved from the corridor upstream.

Grave 2

Grave 2 was oriented east-west after Schlie. It had a mound in which there was a small burial chamber, which, according to Ewald Schuldt, was an ancient dolmen . It consisted of two elongated and two narrower wall stones. The capstone was rolled off. The chamber was 1.5 m long and 0.75 m wide. In the vicinity of the chamber lay several other stones, probably from an enclosure. In addition, the stand holes of other removed stones could be made out.

Grave 3

According to Schlies description, grave 3 also had a pile of mounds. He could still make out a split capstone and a few more, mostly dragged stones. Information on the orientation, dimensions and type of the chamber was no longer possible.

Finds

In 1854 the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology was given two dagger or lance tips , which are said to have been found “in a megalithic grave in Vilz near Ticino” without it being clear in which one of the graves. The material was also not noted.

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. 5.
  • 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 ( online ).
  • Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : megalithic grave of Vilz. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 20, 1855, p. 276 ( online ).
  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 1. 2nd ed., Schwerin 1898, pp. 447-448 ( online ).
  • Ewald Schuldt : Dolmen and passage graves on the Recknitz. Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1966.
  • Ewald Schuldt: The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 118.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, pp. 20-21.

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