Great stone grave Liepen 10

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Great stone grave Liepen 10 Great stone grave Thelkow 10
Great stone grave Liepen 10 (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
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Coordinates 54 ° 3 '58 "  N , 12 ° 35' 35.1"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 3 '58 "  N , 12 ° 35' 35.1"  E
place Thelkow , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany
Emergence 3500 and 2800 BC Chr.
Sprockhoff no. 357
Large dolmen types

The large stone grave Liepen 10 is an east-west-oriented large dolmen excavated and reconstructed by Ewald Schuldt in 1965 in a short megalithic bed, with the Sprockhoff number. 357. It is located in the municipality of Thelkow in the Rostock district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It originated between 3500 and 2800 BC. BC as a megalithic system of the funnel beaker culture (TBK). The dolmen is about 1.1 km northeast of Liepen not far from the Recknitz in the field; to the right of a dirt road that also leads to Liepen 7 and Liepen 8 .

From the approximately five meters long, 1.4 m high, somewhat trapezoidal 1.5 m wide chamber of the large stone grave , the bearing stones are hidden in the mound almost to the top. The two cap stones that have been preserved are partly tipped into the chamber. The coaxial access construction with threshold stone and the relocated 0.75 × 1.25 m closure plate made of red sandstone have been preserved. The facility has three quarters . The board consists of pebbles , annealed flint and clay screed . The hill is covered with reading stones. The archaeological investigation showed that the facility was re-used by the owners of the Elb-Havel group and the spherical amphora culture . In addition to charcoal, human bones (including 13 skulls) and 108 shards, 39 blades, 38 cross cutters, 20 amber beads (seven of which were double-axed ), eight hammer stones , four chisels, three gouges , three tall pots, three shoulder vessels, three amphorae, two spherical amphorae were found. two thick-nosed axes , two bowls, two bowls, a double-conical vessel, a flat hatchet , an arrowhead and a piece of bronze .

See also

literature

  • Luise Lorenz: Ceramic lifetimes and the useful life of northeast German megalithic graves. In: Martin Hinz, Johannes Müller (eds.): Settlement, trench works, large stone grave. Studies on the society, economy and environment of the funnel cup groups in northern Central Europe (= early monumentality and social differentiation. Volume 2). Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3774938137 , pp. 61-86 ( online ).
  • Ewald Schuldt : "The Mecklenburg Megalithic Tombs" Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaft, Berlin 1972.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 19.

Individual evidence

  1. The distribution area of ​​this pearl shape is limited to the northern group and the eastern part of the western group of the TBK with a focus on North Jutland and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where they mainly come from megalithic graves

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