Great stone grave Liepen 7

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Great stone grave Liepen 7 Great stone grave Thelkow 1
Curbs of the hill

Curbs of the hill

Great stone grave Liepen 7 (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
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Coordinates 54 ° 4 '9.1 "  N , 12 ° 35' 21.5"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 4 '9.1 "  N , 12 ° 35' 21.5"  E
place Thelkow , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany
Emergence 3500 and 2800 BC Chr.
Dimensions 6 m * 2.5 m * 1.8 mdep1
Sprockhoff no. 354

The large stone grave Liepen 7 is a north-south oriented, 1965 by Ewald Schuldt excavated and reconstructed passage grave in the small round hill with 16 preserved and 7 missing curb stones, with the Sprockhoff number. 354

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). About 1.1 km northeast of Liepen, not far from the Recknitz, a signposted forest path branches off from a field path to the graves Liepen 7 and Liepen 8 , in a conspicuous group of trees to the right of this field path is the large stone grave Liepen 10 in the field.

Of the approximately six meters long, 1.8 m high and 2.5 m wide chamber of the large stone grave , 11 bearing and two of the original three cap stones and many intermediate masonry have been preserved. Two of at least three of the corridor facing west, about three meters long, laterally about in the middle and at a slight angle.

The facility has four quarters . The plank consists of pebbles , red sandstone slabs and annealed flint . In addition to charcoal, human bones (including 17 skulls) and 31 shards, there were 15 blades , 14 cross cutters , three blowstones , three blade scrapers, two shoulder vessels, a drill, a sandstone disc , a high pot and a boar's tusk.

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. 18.

Web links

Commons : Ganggrab Liepen 7  - Collection of images, videos and audio files