Great stone grave in Tralau
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 49'27.9 " N , 10 ° 17'12" E | ||
| place | Travenbrück OT Tralau , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
The large stone grave in Tralau was a megalithic burial complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Tralau , a district of Travenbrück in the Stormarn district in Schleswig-Holstein . The grave bears the site number Tralau LA 29. It was discovered in 1963 during gravel mining and archaeologically examined by Gottfried Schäfer .
location
The grave was located southwest of Tralau in a wooded area on a hilltop.
description
The complex had an east-west oriented burial chamber , which was an enlarged dolmen with a length of about 1.4 m and a width of 1 m. The chamber was built in a 2.7 m deep, steep-walled pit. On the ground, this was 1.9 m long in east-west direction and 1.8 m wide in north-south direction. A working terrace with a width between 1 m and 1.3 m had been laid out at a height of about 1 m. The total length of the pit at this height was 2.4 m in east-west direction and the width in north-south direction 3 m. During the investigation, only the eastern wall stone of the southern long side of the chamber remained. This had a width of 0.8 m and a height of 1.5 m. Several other stones had already been removed before the examination. Based on the footprints, it was possible to reconstruct that the chamber originally had two pairs of wall stones on the long sides. The exact nature of the narrow sides could not be reliably reconstructed. A backfill of gravelly sand interspersed with humus was found between the wall stone and the pit wall . In was followed by a layer of clay that with flint - Grus and boulders was interspersed. The working terrace was also filled with clay, which was interspersed with flint gravel. The chamber pavement consisted of a lower layer of pebbles embedded in clay and an upper, 2 cm thick layer of burnt flint.
A few pieces of calcined bone were found on the flint layer. Of the grave goods a ceramic shard, one were Flachbeil flint, flint two haircuts and crumbling Bernstein - pearl found. In the upper chamber area, already disturbed by gravel mining, two flint blades and a spherical flint were discovered.
literature
- Hans Hingst : Great stone graves in Schleswig-Holstein. In: Offa. Volume 42, 1985, pp. 92-93.