Great stone grave Thelkow
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 3 '8.4 " N , 12 ° 33' 38.2" E | ||
| place | Thelkow , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 358 | ||
The large stone grave Thelkow is a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Thelkow in the Rostock district ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). It bears the Sprockhoff number 358.
location
The grave is located about 2 km north of Thelkow. It is located directly on a nature trail, about 100 m from the eastern bank of the Teufelssee . Between 400 m and 2.7 km away to the north and east, in several groups, are the megalithic graves near Liepen . About 3 km to the northwest on the other side of the Recknitz are the megalithic graves near Gnewitz .
description
According to Friedrich Schlie's description, the complex had a round enclosure made of eleven stones. Remnants of the mound are still preserved. The burial chamber is a north-west-south-east oriented ancient dolmen . Of the four wall stones, three are still in situ , the southeastern one has been moved, as is the capstone. The chamber has a length of 1.4 m, a width of 0.7 m and a height of 0.7 m. The capstone is 1.8 m long, 1.2 m wide and 1.0 m thick. The current stone enclosure is a modern building that does not correspond to the original plan documented by Schlie.
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. 5.
- Robert Beltz : The Stone Age sites in Meklenburg. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 64, 1899, p. 98 ( online ).
- Friedrich Schlie : The art and historical monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 1. Schwerin 1896, p. 435 ( online ).
- Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 118.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 19.
