Kargow stone grave
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 30 '1.3 " N , 12 ° 48' 39.7" E | ||
| place | Kargow , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
The Kargow large stone grave is a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Kargow in the Mecklenburg Lake District ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ).
location
The grave is located about 1.5 km southeast of Kargow in a field, a few meters south of a path.
description
The facility is badly disturbed and was reconstructed in 1973. The burial chamber is an enlarged dolmen , of which apparently only the wall stones have survived. In the 19th century a stone ax was found here, which came into the possession of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology 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. 38.
- Robert Beltz : The Stone Age sites in Meklenburg. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 64, 1899, pp. 107, 130 ( online ).
- Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 139.
Web links
Commons : Großsteingrab Kargow - Collection of images, videos and audio files
