Carlshof stone grave
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 41 ′ 55.6 " N , 12 ° 34 ′ 30" E | ||
| place | Schorssow , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
The large stone grave Carlshof is a megalithic grave system of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Carlshof , a district of Schorssow in the Rostock district ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ).
location
The grave is located about 600 m southeast of Carlshof in a field.
description
The facility has a rectangular barren bed with a length of about 19 m. Only a few stones remain from the enclosure and most of them have tilted outwards. The burial chamber is a north-east-south-west oriented large dolmen . It probably originally consisted of five yokes. The two end stones on the narrow sides (of which the southwest in situ ), some wall stones on the long sides and four cap stones are still preserved. One capstone is still partially resting on the wall stones, the others have completely sunk into the chamber.
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. 36.
- Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 138.