Passage grave of Qualitz

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The passage grave of Qualitz is a north-south oriented, excavated and reconstructed passage grave in 1966 by Ewald Schuldt in a round rolling stone hill. with the Sprockhoff no. 371. The complex was built between 3500 and 2800 BC. BC as a megalithic system of the funnel beaker culture (TBK).

The system is located in Baumgarten-Qualitz near Bützow in the Rostock district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on a field north of the field path (expansion) between the places Katelbogen and Qualitz under a tree. About 130 m further northeast is the large stone grave of Katelbogen in a conspicuous group of trees.

Of the approximately 11.5 m long (the longest excavated chamber in Mecklenburg), 1.4 m high and 2.5 m wide chamber of the large stone grave , all about 20 bearing stones and six cap stones have been preserved, while all stones of the one in the east are lateral central passage is missing. Two of the capstones have five or 122 bowls . The archaeological investigation showed that the facility had been re-used by the bearers of the individual grave culture and the spherical amphora culture .

In addition to charcoal, human bones and 38 shards, there were seven blades , six cross cutters , three amber beads , two flat hatchets, two bowls, a wide-mouthed vessel, a sandstone disc, a tall pot, a funnel bowl, a single burial beaker and a thick-necked hatchet .

See also

literature

  • Luise Lorenz: Ceramic lifetimes and the useful life of northeast German megalithic graves. In: Martin Hinz, Johannes Müller (eds.): Settlement, trench works, large stone grave. Studies on the society, economy and environment of the funnel cup groups in northern Central Europe (= early monumentality and social differentiation. Volume 2). Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3774938137 , pp. 61-86 ( online ).
  • Ewald Schuldt : The great chamber of Qualitz, Bützow district. In: Ground monument maintenance in Mecklenburg. Yearbook 1967. 1969, pp. 67-77.
  • Ewald Schuldt: The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1972.
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 2: Mecklenburg - Brandenburg - Pomerania. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1967, p. 23.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern frequently encountered stone cover (no cairn or Röse ) is a thin layer of stone pebbles on a mound, which prevent erosion or the optics should impart a stone hill

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Coordinates: 53 ° 50 ′ 9.8 "  N , 11 ° 51 ′ 3.7"  E