Great stone grave Cramon
| Great stone grave Cramon | |||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 36 '59.6 " N , 12 ° 27' 32.5" E | ||
| place | Hohen Wangelin , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 420 | ||
The large stone grave Cramon was a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Cramon , a district of Hohen Wangelin in the Mecklenburg Lake District ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). It bears the Sprockhoff number 420.
location
The former location of the plant is north of Cramon, about 150 m north of the bypass on the site of the Hohen Wangelin agricultural company.
description
Ewald Schuldt and Hans-Jürgen Beier still keep the grave as it is, but it seems to have been destroyed by modern agricultural developments.
The grave has an elongated mound with a length of 11 m and a width of 8 m. The burial chamber of the Großdolmen type is oriented north-south. In 1934 Ernst Sprockhoff could only make out four wall stones. There were two on the long sides, three of which were still in situ .
A more detailed description comes from Robert Beltz , who carried out an excavation here in 1900. He also noticed a stone enclosure, which he did not describe in detail and did not capture in drawings. All three wall stones on the western and two on the eastern long side were still preserved. The southeastern one was already missing. The northern narrow side had, unusually, two closing stones. The southern narrow side consisted of a 60 cm high block in the east and a 25 cm high threshold stone in the east. Here was the entrance to the chamber. The spaces between the large stones were filled with spandrel masonry made of stone slabs and gravel. A large accumulation of fallen masonry was discovered at the location of the missing wall stone on the east side. In front of the south side was a carried capstone. The chamber had a length of 3.8 m, a width of 1.7 m and a height of 1.4 m. The floor had a paving made of small stone slabs, which were covered with a layer of clay. The north and east of the chamber were unpaved.
Finds
On the paved part of the chamber, Beltz could make out three burials on the west wall. Remains of the skeletons were preserved, as were several grave goods. At the southern burial, a stone ax, a flint hatchet, ceramic shards, a cross-edged arrowhead and three unspecified flint fragments were found.
In the middle of the chamber was a fireplace. A few long bones and a tooth fragment were found there. Ceramic shards and fragments of flint were discovered in additions. One of the flint pieces was probably a knife.
In the north, small skeletal remains were discovered in a joint between two wall stones. Some ceramic fragments were preserved from the grave goods. It is also possible that some of the burnt flint fragments were remains of additions, as there were too few to have served as paving.
Furthermore traces of a Slavic reuse of the facility were discovered. In the north of the chamber was an iron device, probably a knife. At the south end there was a slavic ceramic shard in a layer of fire and a horse bone on the layer.
Stone ax, burial I.
Flint ax, burial I.
Sheeter, burial I
Ceramic shard, burial I.
Ceramic shard, burial II
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. 37.
- Robert Beltz : Cramon barrow (near Malchow). In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 66, 1901, pp. 115-125 ( online ).
- Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 139.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 41.
