Axelshof stone grave

String decorated vessel from the grave

Flint spearhead from the grave

The large stone grave Axelshof was a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Axelshof , a district of Kummerow in the Mecklenburg Lake District ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). It was probably destroyed around 1904. Its exact location is not known. All that is known about the grave is that it is an "elongated 4 foot [approx. 1.2 m] high barrow of stone ”. The exact type of grave cannot be determined from this information. A ceramic vessel adorned with string and a spearhead made of flint were recovered from the complex , which probably originate from a subsequent burial of the end-Neolithic individual grave culture and came to the Museum of Szczecin .

literature

Sixty-sixth annual report of the Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology. April 1903 to April 1904. In: Baltic Studies. New episode. Volume 8, 1904, p. 154 ( online ).
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. 27.
Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 134.

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