Great stone grave critters
The large stone grave Viecheln was a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Viecheln , a district of Behren-Lübchin in the Rostock district ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). It was destroyed around 1850 when the road from Gnoien to Ticino was built . The exact location of the grave is not known. There is also no more detailed information about alignment, dimensions and type. When the facility was destroyed, several items were recovered that were transferred to the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. It was a thin - leaf flint hatchet , an amber pearl in the shape of a double club, as well as an iron spearhead and a three - sided object made of lead , perhaps an arrowhead . The tip of the lance probably only got into the grave in the Middle Ages , Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch suspected a modern entry for the lead object . The preserved objects are now part of the collection of the Archaeological State Museum Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Schwerin . The amber pearl is lost.
literature
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- 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. 117 ( online ).
- Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : megalithic grave of Viecheln. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 16, 1851, pp. 252-253 ( 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. 105.
- Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 1. 2nd ed., Schwerin 1898, p. 532 ( online ).
- Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 138.
