Gransee stone grave

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The Gransee large stone grave was a megalithic burial site, presumably from the Neolithic beaker culture, near Gransee in the Oberhavel district ( Brandenburg ). It was destroyed in 1838 when the road to Oranienburg was being built .

description

Leopold von Ledebur reports that the grave consisted of a large capstone and four wall stones. Eberhard Kirsch therefore sees it as a block chamber or Urdolmen , Hans-Jürgen Beier as a stone box or Urdolmen. No information is available about the dimensions and orientation of the grave.

When the facility was destroyed, numerous items were recovered. Several ceramic vessels of unknown numbers were smashed by the workers in the hope of finding money. The broken pieces probably remained on site and are no longer preserved. Four stone tools ended up in the Museum of Prehistory and Early History in Berlin . A thick stone ax made of granite and a thin-leaf flint ax have been preserved. The stone ax has a rectangular cross-section, a rounded neck and measures 15.4 cm × 5.5 cm × 3.4 cm. The flint ax is cut, asymmetrical and has a rectangular cross-section; it measures 13 cm × 4.3 cm × 1.2 cm. Another thick-nosed stone ax and a flint chisel are lost today.

According to Kirsch, the shape of the grave speaks for a system originally built by members of the funnel cup culture. The two stone implements that have been preserved, on the other hand, are more likely to be attributed to the spherical amphora culture , which suggests a subsequent use.

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, ISBN 3-930036-00-2 , p. 43.
  • Eberhard Kirsch : Finds from the Middle Neolithic in the state of Brandenburg. Brandenburg State Museum for Prehistory and Early History, Potsdam 1993, p. 213.
  • Leopold von Ledebur : The pagan antiquities of the administrative district of Potsdam. A contribution to the antiquity statistics of the Mark Brandenburg. Berlin 1852, p. 22 ( books.google.de ).
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : The cultures of the younger Stone Age in the Mark Brandenburg. In: Prehistoric Research. 4. Berlin 1926, p. 141.
  • U. Uhl: The state of Neolithic research in the Potsdam district. Diploma thesis, Halle (Saale) 1983, No. 559.