Great stone grave Carmzow
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 21 '56.8 " N , 14 ° 3' 58.9" E | ||
| place | Carmzow-Wallmow , Brandenburg , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 459 | ||
The large stone grave Carmzow is a megalithic burial complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Carmzow , a district of Carmzow-Wallmow in the Uckermark district ( Brandenburg ). It bears the Sprockhoff number 459.
location
The grave is located about 2.5 km south-southwest of Carmzow in a field and is not directly accessible via a road or path.
description
Due to a robbery excavation in 1956, the grave was documented and the finds were emergency salvage by Hermanfrid Schubart . The complex has a pile of mounds and a burial chamber, presumably originally encased with rolling stones, north-south oriented . The chamber is a little southeast of the middle of the hill. It has a length of 2.4 m and a width of 1.1 m. In the south there is a 0.5 m wide vestibule. The chamber has nine narrow wall panels: three on the western long side, four on the eastern long side, an end plate on the northern narrow side and a threshold stone that marks the entrance on the south side. Only one of the capstones remains, which fell into the interior of the chamber. The spaces between the panels were filled with spandrel masonry. Due to its rather small size and the rather small wall panels, the burial chamber was classified differently in the specialist literature: Ewald Schuldt classified it as an extended dolmen , Hans-Jürgen Beier as an extended dolmen or ramp box and Eberhard Kirsch as a large stone box .
Human skeletal remains that can be assigned to at least two individuals were recovered from the chamber. Other bones come from the wild boar . Animal bones from a burrow are modern.
Several ceramic shards were found among grave goods. Some of them could be reconstructed into a high-shouldered vessel with a funnel-shaped rim. Furthermore, an edge shard with a horizontal finger-dab and several atypical shards were recovered. These finds can be assigned to the spherical amphora culture and the more recent Nordic beaker culture. Further shards could be reconstructed to a cup of the end-Neolithic single grave culture with horizontal grooves. The finds are now in the collection of the University of Greifswald .
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. 32.
- Eberhard Kirsch : Finds from the Middle Neolithic in the state of Brandenburg. Brandenburg State Museum for Prehistory and Early History, Potsdam 1993, p. 148.
- Erika Nagel : The appearance of the sphere amphora culture in the north of the GDR (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of the districts of Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg. Volume 18). Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1985, p. 73.
- Ingeburg Nilius : The Neolithic in Mecklenburg at the time and with special consideration of the funnel beaker culture. Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1971, p. 94.
- Ingeburg Nilius: Two Neolithic stone boxes from the Neubrandenburg district. In: Ground monument maintenance in Mecklenburg. Yearbook 1978. 1979, p. 21.
- Jens Parschau: The Neolithic settlement in the Uecker-Randow area. Diploma thesis, Halle (Saale) 1986, No. 307.
- Hermanfrid Schubart : A stone chamber from Carmzow, Prenzlau district. In: Ground monument maintenance in Mecklenburg. Yearbook 1956. 1958, pp. 18-27.
- Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 136.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 55.