Great stone grave Wegezin

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The large stone grave Wegezin was a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Wegezin , a district of Krien in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). It was probably destroyed in the 19th or early 20th century. Its exact location has not been handed down, it is only given as “in the paddock”. Information on the dimensions, orientation and type of the grave is not available.

literature

  • Fifth annual report of the Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology. In: Baltic Studies. Volume 1, 1832, p. 301 ( 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. 24.
  • Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 131.
  • Emil Walter : Directory of the prehistoric monuments of the Anklam district. In: Monthly sheets of the society for Pomeranian history, antiquity and art. Volume 3, 1889, p. 133 ( online ).