Great stone grave Prieschendorf

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Great stone grave Prieschendorf
Great stone grave Prieschendorf (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
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Coordinates 53 ° 53 '49.7 "  N , 11 ° 0' 12"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 53 '49.7 "  N , 11 ° 0' 12"  E
place Dassow , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany
Emergence 3500 to 2800 BC Chr.

The large stone grave Prieschendorf was a megalithic burial complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Prieschendorf , a district of Dassow in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). It was excavated in 1837 by the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology and then destroyed by the landowner. The finds made during the excavation are now in the collection of the Archaeological State Museum Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Schwerin . Ewald Schuldt mentions a second grave, which, however, is likely to be identical to the neighboring large stone grave Holm , since reference is made to the same literature in both cases.

location

The grave was located northeast of Prieschendorf on a slight ridge. The large stone grave Holm was about 800 m to the east. About 150 m to the southeast there is a preserved Bronze Age burial mound .

description

The plant had an east-west oriented rectangular, slightly oval-inclined megalithic bed with a length of 30 feet (approx. 9 m) and a width of 18 feet (approx. 5.4 m). It had a double enclosure, the inner of which consisted of 15 stones, which were set up at intervals of 4-7 feet (about 1.2-2.1 m). In the western part, dry masonry made of small stone slabs was found in the spaces between the stones. The outer stone circle had a radius of 25-30 feet (about 7-9 m). Only five stones remained from him. Two more had only been removed a few years before the facility was finally destroyed. The mound was preserved five feet high.

In the middle of the hill was the north-south oriented burial chamber. It consisted of seven wall stones and was 7.5 feet (about 2.35 m) long and 3.5 feet (about 1 m) wide. Cap stones were no longer available, and no pavement was found. The north side of the chamber was open. Ewald Schuldt classified the facility as a passage grave, but this does not really match the information in the excavation report. The burial chamber itself was completely empty. In front of the open north side were some fragments of animal bones and two teeth - probably part of a horse's skull .

A fire was discovered at the east end of the hill at a depth of 4 feet. There were the pieces of two or three round-bellied decorated pottery vessels, four red sandstone slabs , a grinding stone of chert , two flint blades give and three amber - pearls . Right next to this site, after the excavation was completed, a plaster made of annealed flint and on top of it another burn site were discovered. There were still the shards of five other vessels, two flint axes, a blade and a horse's skull. The ceramics could be assigned to the (late?) Funnel beaker culture and the spherical amphora culture .

The west end of the hill also contained a burn on glowed flint. There were found in three places shards of seven vessels, three flint axes, a narrow chisel made of flint, six blades, four more flint artifacts and another amber bead.

At the former location of the grave, a fragment of a thin-leaf ax was found around 1876.

literature

  • The burial urns of the barrows. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 10, 1845, p. 253 ( online ).
  • Megalithic grave near Prieschendorf. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 2, 1837, pp. 25-33 ( online ).
  • Hünengrab von Prieschendorf (addendum to year II, p. 25, and IV, p. 20). In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 41, 1876, p. 163 ( online ).
  • 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. 3.
  • 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, pp. 98-99 ( online ).
  • Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : Hünengrab von Prieschendorf (addendum to annual report II, p. 25 flgd.). In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 4, 1839, pp. 20-21 ( 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. 103.
  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 2. Schwerin 1899, p. 420 ( online ).
  • Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 117.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 6.

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