Large stone graves near Vorbein
The megalithic graves at Vorbein were five megalithic graves from the Neolithic funnel beaker culture at Vorbein , a district of Loitz in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). They were probably destroyed in the late 19th century. The existence of the graves was recorded by hand in the 1820s by Friedrich von Hagenow . His notes were published by Rudolf Baier in 1904 . A system was excavated by von Hagenow in 1824 and recorded in drawings. It bears the Sprockhoff number 545. The found objects initially remained in von Hagenow's private collection and are now in the Stralsund Museum .
location
The exact location of the graves was not noted by von Hagenow. The Vorbein complex was part of a larger group of megalithic tombs that stretched southwest of Greifswald between Dargelin in the east and Düvier in the west.
description
The graves were initially only recorded in a list. The list shows that all five graves were large dolmen . Four were encased in a rolling stone mound. The fifth had a round or oval stone enclosure.
One of the graves without enclosure was excavated by von Hagenow in 1824. It was oriented east-west and had four pairs of wall stones on the long sides, one end stone each on the narrow sides and probably three cap stones. The cap stones had already been blown up shortly before Hagenow's investigation, his reconstruction drawing shows only two stones. The floor of the burial chamber was made of clay and sand . At the west end, a quarter was separated by a north-south row of vertically positioned stone slabs. The chamber was 14 to 16 feet (about 4.4 to 5.0 m) long and 5 feet (about 1.6 m) wide.
Grave goods included shards of a ceramic vessel that had contained bones and ashes, two hollow axes , a thick-nosed hatchet , a triangular arrowhead and two flint blades as well as two axes from a subsequent burial of the individual grave culture . The ceramic shards were apparently not saved, all other finds are now in the collection of the Stralsund Museum.
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. 18, 27-28.
- 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, pp. 26–27.
- Ellen Haupt: The prehistory of the Grimmen district. Dissertation, Greifswald 1943, p. 42.
- 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 of Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1971, p. 105.
- Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 133.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 82.
- Karl Wilhelm Struve : The individual grave culture in Schleswig-Holstein and its continental relationships. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1955, p. 65.