Great stone grave Wilsen (Kreien)
| Great stone grave Wilsen (Kreien) | |||
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 22 '45.6 " N , 12 ° 5' 28.4" E | ||
| place | Kreien , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 418 | ||
The large stone grave Wilsen is a megalithic grave complex of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Wilsen , a district of Kreien in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). It bears the Sprockhoff number 418. In 1971 it was examined by Ewald Schuldt . Here grave goods from a subsequent burial of the spherical amphora culture were discovered.
location
The grave is located about 1.5 km east of Wilsen and about 100 m north of the Gehlsbach on the edge of a field.
description
The complex has an east-west oriented rectangular barren bed 15 m long and 12 m wide, the mound of which is still about 1 m high. The burial chamber is an aisle grave . It originally consisted of five yokes. The five wall stones on the southern and four on the northern long side are still preserved in situ . The second stone from the west is missing on the north side, as are the two end stones. The eastern stone on the north side is very deep in the earth. To ensure that the capstone was in a straight position, several large trailer stones were installed. Two of the former five capstones still exist. Both fell inside the chamber. The burial chamber has a length of 6.5 m, a width of 1.8 m and a height of 1.2 m. The entrance is between the second and third stone from the east on the south side. There was originally a two-yoke corridor there. This consisted of two stones and two narrow slabs between the corridor stones and the wall stones of the chamber. These were set a little further inwards than the gangway stones. Of the gangway stones, only the 1.2 m long eastern one remains, of the western only the standing pit has been preserved. The two cap stones are missing, and a threshold stone between the corridor and the chamber could not be identified. The corridor is 2.8 m long and 1.1 m wide.
In 1971 Ewald Schuldt carried out a special excavation . In this case, in the western part of the chamber a fill layer of sand and including a layer made of baked were flint - crus found. To the north-east of the corridor, instead of flint, stone slabs were found. There were also upright slabs made of red sandstone , which divided the chamber into quarters. These slabs were preserved in a row that ran across the entire width of the chamber between the spandrels of the easternmost and the following pair of wall stones, as well as in a line running from this row in the middle of the chamber. A single long slab protruded from this line to the second spandrel on the north side. This division of quarters presumably continued to the west, but the chamber was too disturbed in this area and no clear findings were obtained. Presumably, the burial chamber was originally divided into four quarters.
The only finds were four vessels from a subsequent burial of the spherical amphora culture. This is a spherical amphora, a wide-mouthed bowl, a tubular vessel and an undecorated bowl. None of the vessels were found complete. They were probably already laid down in a damaged condition.
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. 20.
- Robert Beltz : The Stone Age sites in Meklenburg. In: Yearbook of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Volume 64, 1899, p. 96 ( online ).
- Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 4. Schwerin 1901, p. 632 ( online ).
- Erika Nagel: Wilsen's passage grave, Lübz district, as part of the sphere amphora culture in Mecklenburg. In: Ground monument maintenance in Mecklenburg. Yearbook 1973. 1974, pp. 89-97.
- Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 129.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf-Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 39.