Great stone grave Quetz

The large stone grave Quetz was a possible Neolithic megalithic grave complex on the Quetzer Berg near Quetzdölsdorf- Quetz, a district of Zörbig in the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district , Saxony-Anhalt . The facility was excavated by J. Schmidt in 1897. At this point it was already badly damaged and was later completely removed. More precise information on the architecture of the tomb is not available. According to Hans-Jürgen Beier , it could have been a large stone grave or a pseudomegalithic wall chamber grave . Skeletal remains could not be found during the examination. At offerings were hammers of rock, a bone - chisel , a flint Sword and several pottery fragments found. The latter allowed the grave to be assigned to the late Neolithic Bernburg culture . The finds are now in the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle (Saale) .

literature

Hans-Jürgen Beier : The grave and burial customs of the Walternienburg and Bernburg culture. Scientific contributions 1984/30 (L19) of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, ISSN 0440-1298 , p. 121.
Hans-Jürgen Beier: The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings and the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Volume 1). Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 65.
Nils Niklasson : Studies on the Walternienburg-Bernburger culture 1 (= annual publication for Central German prehistory. Volume 13). Halle (Saale) 1925, p. 88 ( online ).