Great stone grave Ellershagen
| Great stone grave Ellershagen Breadstones | |||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 12 '25.9 " N , 12 ° 16' 27.1" E | ||
| place | Halenbeck-Rohlsdorf , Brandenburg , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
The large stone grave Ellershagen (also known as bread stones ) is a megalithic grave complex probably of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Ellershagen , a district of Halenbeck-Rohlsdorf in the Prignitz district ( Brandenburg ).
location
The grave is located about 800 m west-southwest of Ellershagen on an island in the Sadenbeck reservoir .
description
The complex originally consisted of five wall stones and a capstone, but was badly damaged in the 19th century. In the 1920s there were only three stones left. An excavation carried out in 1985 showed that the facility is oriented north-south and has a length of 8 m and a width of 2.2 m. The exact type of grave could no longer be determined. One of the three remaining foundlings has bowls . Smaller fragments of the destroyed stones are still lying around.
Funnel beaker additions from the time were not found. The only finds were fragments of a giant beaker that belonged to a reburial of the end-Neolithic ceramic cord culture .
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. 44.
- Eberhard Kirsch : Finds from the Middle Neolithic in the state of Brandenburg. Brandenburg State Museum for Prehistory and Early History, Potsdam 1993, p. 301.
- Walter Matthes : A megalithic grave near Ellershagen in the Ostprignitz district. In: Mannus. Supplementary volume 6, 1928, pp. 27ff.
- Walter Matthes: Prehistory of the Ostprignitz district. Kabitzsch, Leipzig 1929, p. 129.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : The cultures of the younger Stone Age in the Mark Brandenburg. In: Prehistoric Research. 4. Berlin 1926, p. 142.
- Ernst Sprockhoff: Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 53.
- U. Uhl: The state of Neolithic research in the Potsdam district. Diploma thesis, Halle (Saale) 1983, No. 34.