Great stone grave from Upost
The stone grave of Upost is a northwest-southeast-oriented, 1968 by Ewald Schuldt (1914-1987) excavated and reconstructed, slightly trapezoidal passage grave in a roll cairn with the Sprockhoff no. 396. The complex was built between 3500 and 2800 BC. BC as a megalithic system of the funnel beaker culture (TBK).
location
The large stone grave is located near Warrenzin in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in a forest to the northeast of the Upost district and is one of the very rare installations of the passage grave type in this region.
description
Almost all of the curbs of the 10 m long and 7 m wide barren bed are missing. Of the approximately 6.0 m long, 1.3 m high and 2.0 by 1.8 m wide chamber of the large stone grave , nine (of 10) bearing stones and all four cap stones have been preserved. One lies on the supporting stones, the others are in or next to the chamber. The chamber has pronounced apse-like ends. The bearing stones of the approximately 2.5 m long leterally eccentric corridor are preserved while all cap stones are missing. The hall, which is covered with red sandstone slabs, has four quarters . The archaeological investigation revealed that the facility had been re-used by those who carried out the spherical amphora culture .
In addition to charcoal, animal bones, corpse fire and 372 shards, there were ten cross cutters, five blades , five flat axes, five blowstones , four double-conical vessels, three spherical amphoras , three tall pots, two bowls, two chisels, an amphora, a funnel bowl, a blade scraper, and a thick hatchet .
See also
literature
- Ewald Schuldt : A large stone grave near Upost, Demmin district. In: Ground monument maintenance in Mecklenburg. Yearbook 1969. 1970, pp. 95-109.
- 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. 31.
- Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 ° 53 ′ 13.2 " N , 12 ° 56 ′ 26.6" E