Great stone grave Damerow (Rollwitz)
| Great stone grave Damerow (Rollwitz) | |||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 26 '7.8 " N , 13 ° 58' 15.6" E | ||
| place | Rollwitz , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
The large stone grave Damerow is a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Damerow , a district of Rollwitz in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ).
location
The grave is located about 400 m south of Damerow and just as far north of the state border between Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg at the fork in the road to Schönfeld and Malchow . To the west, on the Ofenberg, were two similar hills that were destroyed in the 19th century. It is unclear whether these were more large stone graves or burial mounds .
description
The facility has a north-south oriented mound of 14 m long and 8 m wide, which is still 0.5 m high. In a decentralized location, this conceals an east-west oriented burial chamber , which is an extended dolmen . It has two wall stones each on the long sides and a capping stone on the western narrow side. The east side is open. Here is the original entrance, which was probably only closed with rolling stones. The wall stones reach up to the upper edge of the mound, so that the cap stones were probably visible in the original condition of the complex. According to a survey of residents by M. Schultze, the capstones were apparently removed before the 1860s.
A report by the Baltic studies of 1854 were a cylindrical "in a tomb at Damerow bei Pasewalk" Bernstein - pearl and two knives and two bits of flint found. Ewald Schuldt identifies the site with the preserved large stone grave. M. Schultz could not find any further additions.
literature
- Sixth and Twentieth Annual Report of the Society, for the years 1850, 51, 52. In: Baltic Studies. Volume 15/2, 1854, p. 57 ( 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. 30.
- Eberhard Kirsch : Finds from the Middle Neolithic in the state of Brandenburg. Brandenburg State Museum for Prehistory and Early History, Potsdam 1993, p. 116.
- Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 135.
- M. Schultze: The tumulus of Damerow near Nechlin and the megalithic graves of the Prenzlau district. In: home calendar district of Prenzlau. 1928, pp. 102-111 ( online ).