Cult facility of Dargun
The overground worn funnel cup temporal cult system of Dargun (county Mecklenburg Lake) was in 2013 on the route of the "North European Gas Pipeline" ( NEL ) on the approximately 3 km north of Dargun discovered Neubauhof located find site.
The north-west-south-east orientated system of 7 × 6 m, located on a hill, shows an interior structure. A pavement made of small, flat stones of 2.4 × 5.3 m dominates. It is divided into three compartments by two rows of vertical sandstone slabs. To the southwest of the "main pavement" was a second, square pavement, which was bordered by a stone slab in the northeast. The shape and structure of the areas are similar, so that they will be built at the same time. Four round or oval, reddish discolorations on the pavement indicate fireplaces.
A bone depot with the remains of at least six individuals came to light in the northwest of the cult complex. These include the bones of a newborn, two children, a teenager and two adults. The skeletons were neither completely in the pit nor were they in the anatomical bandage at the time of their laying down, so that victims can be assumed. Radiocarbon dates allow the bone deposit to be dated to the early 3rd millennium BC. BC, so in the outgoing Funnel Beaker Culture (TBK).
From the backfilling of the cult complex come from the funnel-beaker-time vessel shards, an incomplete flint chisel and fragments of weathered amber . The latter belong to a double ax pearl, as they are known from simultaneous megalithic systems.
The exposed location and its internal structure, the fireplace and the bone depot allow an interpretation as a cultic building, especially since the structures for megalithic systems are documented. Apparently, apart from the large stone graves, there were also structures whose rising structures have not been preserved. The findings from Neubauhof did not reveal any evidence of larger stone structures, so that it could have been a kind of hut for the dead .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 54 '53.6 " N , 12 ° 53' 1.4" E