Great stone grave Boldebuck

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The large stone grave Boldebuck was a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Boldebuck , a district of Gülzow-Prüzen in the Rostock district ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). It was destroyed in the middle of the 19th century. Its exact location is not known. Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch published a report in 1860 according to which the facility had been dismantled "many years ago" by Chief Inspector Metelmann and examined in the process. The large stone grave was located in a burial mound that had either been completely filled up during the Bronze Age or expanded an already existing mound. The hill was 12 feet tall . Halfway up Metelmann found the Bronze Age cremation , for which there is no detailed description. Below was the great stone grave. No more detailed information is available about alignment and dimensions. It is only very vaguely described as being rectangular and consisting of large wall stones and several cap stones. The grave type can be with these figures do not determine it could be a both great dolmen and passage grave have acted. Grave goods were either not found or they appeared to the excavator to be too insignificant to mention.

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. 17.
  • Robert Beltz : The Stone Age sites in Meklenburg. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 64, 1899, p. 97 ( online ).
  • Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : Boldebuck barrow. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 25, 1860, p. 214 ( online ).
  • Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 126.