Great stone grave Nesow

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The large stone grave Nesow was a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Nesow , a district of Rehna in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). It was archaeologically examined in 1864 and completely destroyed a little later.

location

The grave was on the field "Siedenlande" near the meadow "Kellendiek".

description

The complex had an underground, east-west oriented burial chamber with a length of 12 feet (approx. 3.6 m) and a width of 3 feet (approx. 0.9 m). It had two granite wall stones on each of the long sides. The two western wall stones were about 1.8 m long, the two eastern ones measured 1.2-1.5 m and were slightly inclined. The spaces between the wall stones were clad with dry masonry. Another stone with a length of 5.5 feet (approx. 1.7 m) and a width and thickness of 3-4 feet (approx. 0.9-1.2 m) lay diagonally on the western narrow side. On the eastern narrow side there was also a smaller stone 3 feet (approx. 0.9 m) long, wide and thick. Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch thought they were rolled cap stones, Ernst Sprockhoff, however, the cap stones . The cap stones would therefore have been missing. Sprockhoff classified the chamber generally as a dolmen , Ewald Schuldt as a large dolmen , Hans-Jürgen Beier, on the other hand, as a stone box , probably because of the deepening in the ground, the dimensions speak more for a dolmen. Strong stone packings were found both inside and around the chamber.

The only known find is a flint dagger from a reburial of the end neolithic individual grave culture . It ended up in the collection of the Grand Ducal Museum, today's Archaeological State Museum Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Schwerin , but is no longer preserved.

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. 16.
  • Robert Beltz : The Stone Age sites in Meklenburg. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 64, 1899, p. 99 ( online ).
  • Robert Beltz: The prehistoric antiquities of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Complete list of the finds preserved in the Grand Ducal Museum in Schwerin. Text tape. Reimer, Berlin 1910, p. 99 ( online ).
  • Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : megalithic grave of Nesow. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 30, 1865, pp. 131-132 ( online ).
  • Ingeburg Nilius : The Neolithic in Mecklenburg at the time and with special consideration of the funnel cup culture (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of the districts of Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg. Volume 5). Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1971, p. 110.
  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 2. Schwerin 1899, p. 519 ( online ).
  • Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 126.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : The Nordic megalithic culture (= manual of the prehistory of Germany. Volume 3). de Gruyter, Berlin / Leipzig 1938, p. 67, plate 20/1.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff: Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 6.