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The large stone grave Ladekath was a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic deep engraving ceramic culture near Ladekath , a district of the municipality Arendsee (Altmark) in the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel , Saxony-Anhalt . The grave was destroyed in the 19th century.

location

The grave was west of Ladekath. To the south-east of its former location is the still-preserved large stone grave Lie .

Research history

The facility was first documented in the 1830s by Johann Friedrich Danneil . When the great stone graves of the Altmark were taken up again in the 1890s , Eduard Krause and Otto Schoetensack discovered that the grave had since been completely removed in the course of the separation .

description

The grave was partially destroyed when Danneil was taken. It was 7.8 m long and 3.1 m wide. It was no longer possible to determine the type of grave.

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings and the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Volume 1). Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 57.
  • Johann Friedrich Danneil: Special evidence of the barrows in the Altmark. In: Sixth annual report of the Altmark Association for Patriotic History and Industry. 1843, No. 141 ( PDF; 5.5 MB ).
  • Eduard Krause, Otto Schoetensack: The megalithic graves (stone chamber graves) of Germany. I. Altmark. In: Journal of Ethnology. Volume 25, 1893, No. 188 ( PDF; 39.0 MB ).