Great stone grave Garvsmühlen
| Great stone grave Garvsmühlen | |||
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 6 '25.5 " N , 11 ° 38' 46.8" E | ||
| place | Rerik , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
The large stone grave Garvsmühlen was a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Garvsmühlen , a district of Rerik in the Rostock district ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). It was destroyed at the end of the 19th century.
location
The grave was east of Garvsmühlen, next to a single house in the direction of Rerik. The two large stone graves of Gaarzerhof are still located about 400 m west-southwest of its original location .
description
After the demolition of the grave had started, Robert Beltz carried out an excavation on October 5, 1895 . According to his description, the complex was an east-west oriented, rectangular, chamberless barn bed with a length of 13.5 m and a width of 5 m. 14 large stones were still preserved from the enclosure. The mound reached a height of 1.25 m and consisted of black-gray earth. The foundation of the hill was a dam made of large, flat bedrock . About 4.5 m from the western end, a granite block 2 m long and 1.5 m high had been placed across the hill on the dam. Its west side was smooth.
A large number of jumbled human bones were found on the southern edge of the hill, right by the perimeter. They could be assigned to four individuals. A flint blade was found on the bones . In the western part of the hill two small, indeterminable ceramic shards were found, at the eastern end, between the dam stones, an urn filled with bones and ashes from an Iron Age reburial . During the further removal after Beltz's investigation, four more skeletons were found, but Beltz believed that they did not come directly from the megalithic bed, but rather from his surroundings and were probably of more recent date, possibly from the Slav period . The small shards are lost, the blade, the urn and the bones are now in the collection of the Archaeological State Museum Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Schwerin .
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. 1.
- Robert Beltz : Garvsmühlen barrow. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 64, 1899, pp. 119-121 ( online ).
- Robert Beltz: The prehistoric antiquities of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Complete list of the finds preserved in the Grand Ducal Museum in Schwerin. Text tape. Reimer, Berlin 1910, p. 116 ( online ).
- Ingeburg Nilius : The Neolithic in Mecklenburg at the time and with special consideration of the funnel cup culture (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of the districts of Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg. Volume 5). Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1971, p. 95.
- Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 3. Schwerin 1900, p. 722 ( online ).
- Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 116.