Lenzen rock grave

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Lenzen rock grave
Lenzen stone grave (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
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Coordinates 53 ° 41 '59.3 "  N , 12 ° 0' 33.3"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 41 '59.3 "  N , 12 ° 0' 33.3"  E
place Mustin , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.
Sprockhoff no. 377

The large stone grave Lenzen is a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture (TBK) near Lenzen , a district of Mustin in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). It bears the Sprockhoff number 377.

location

The grave is on a field halfway between Lenzen and Bolz .

description

The heavily destroyed complex has a burial chamber encased in a rolling stone mound, facing northwest-southeast , which is an aisle grave . Two rows of wall stones and four larger stones, probably cap stones, have been preserved. One of these stones has several bowls . The chamber has a length of 6 m and a width of 2 m.

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. 22.
  • Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 130.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 25.

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