Great stone grave Baabe
| Great stone grave Baabe Haunted bush | |||
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 Spukbusch, 2017 |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 21 '43.2 " N , 13 ° 42' 12.6" E | ||
| place | Baabe , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
The large stone grave Baabe , also called Spukbusch , is a destroyed large stone grave near Baabe on the island of Rügen , district of Vorpommern-Rügen , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
location
The grave is located 90 m west of the Baabe train station on the edge of a wooded natural knoll that borders on a lowland east of the Selliner See . The Mönchgraben is 150 m north of the grave . The grave is only visible today as a flat hill. Immediately to the north is another burial mound .
Research history
The grave was first recorded in 1829 by Friedrich von Hagenow on his special chart of the island of Rügen . In 1893 Max Weigel carried out an excavation here. In 2000 it was re-measured in order to be included in the list of ground monuments of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and classified as an extended dolmen. In 2011, as part of a priority program of the German Research Foundation, an excavation was carried out under the direction of Anja Behrens and Sabrina Reichler .
description
The system has a long bed with a length of about 15 m and a width of about 4 m. Remnants of the mound could still be made out during the excavation in 2011. The standing pit of a surrounding stone was also discovered. Its foundations and wedging made of smaller field stones were partially preserved in situ , but the surrounding stone itself was completely removed. The burial chamber was examined by Weigel in 1893. It had a depth of 1.5 m and an area of 4 m². Weigel was able to make out several wall stones and a capstone, which were later completely removed. In addition, a pavement made of small stones was still present during his examination.
Three large and 15 smaller vessels, two double-button amber beads and numerous flint and field stone tools were recovered from the burial chamber . The latter are a narrow chisel , five axes, the fragment of another flint ax, the fragment of a hammer made of diorite , a spearhead made of flint and a few dozen flint knives. The chisel has a length of 22.8 cm, the axes are between 15.4 cm and 23.4 cm.
During the GPS survey in 2000, flint marks and a shotgun were found.
A cultural layer discovered in 2011 also shows that the grave was subsequently used as a work place. A total of 374 flint chips, eight cores, 18 blades and two scrapers were recovered here. There were also two Iron Age ceramic shards.
An archaeobotanical examination of charred plant remains revealed a high number of stalks and stalks as well as some weeds, a pine needle, the cone scale of a black alder , the shell of a hazelnut and mouse droppings. The informative value of these finds is limited by their small amount, but at least human activities involving fire during the construction or subsequent use of the grave are documented. Apparently the grass vegetation was burned down, which is indicated by the high number of stalks and stalks. The complete lack of cultivated plants is striking.
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. 7.
- Anja Behrens, Sabrina Reichler: New excavation results on the building history of funnel-shaped large stone graves on Rügen. In: Martin Hinz, Johannes Müller (eds.): Settlement, trench works, large stone grave. Studies on society, economy and the environment of the funnel cup groups in northern Central Europe (= early monumentality and social differentiation. Volume 2). Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3-7749-3813-7 , pp. 193-209 ( online ).
- Friedrich von Hagenow : Special chart of the island of Rügen. 1829.
- Stefanie Klooss, Wiebke Kierleis: Charred plant remains from megalithic graves in the southeast of the island of Rügen. In: Martin Hinz, Johannes Müller (eds.): Settlement, trench works, large stone grave. Studies on society, economy and the environment of the funnel cup groups in northern Central Europe (= early monumentality and social differentiation. Volume 2). Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3-7749-3813-7 , pp. 221-226 ( online ).
- Ingeburg Nilius : The Neolithic in Mecklenburg at the time and with special consideration of the funnel cup culture (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of the districts of Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg. Volume 5). Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1971, p. 93.
- Max Weigel: Baabe grave find on Mönchgut, island of Rügen. In: News about German antiquities. 1893 (1894), pp. 70-72 ( online ).
