Stone graves near Labömitz
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| Coordinates | Labömitz Fpl. 1 , Labömitz Fpl. 15 | ||
| place | Benz , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
The stone graves at Labömitz were several partly megalithic graves of unknown number of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Labömitz , a district of Benz on Usedom in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). Only two of these still exist today. The remaining graves were destroyed in the 19th century. Two of them were removed in 1884 and examined more closely. The findings gained from this came the Museum of Szczecin . It is not possible to make a precise distinction between large stone graves and smaller stone boxes .
location
The preserved grave Fpl. 1 is located south of Labömitz on the district boundary to Katschow , about 100 m east of the road leading there. Grave Fpl. 15 is 1 km north of this in a wooded area. The facilities destroyed in the 19th century were located north or north-east of Labömitz at the foot of a hill and spread over an area of about 30 × 100 m. This also included the two graves examined in 1885, the smaller of which was about 30 m southeast of the larger. To the north of Labömitz was the large stone grave Benz , to the southwest the large stone grave Katschow .
description
Preserved graves
Grave Fpl. 1
The grave has an elongated mound on which several large stones lie. The original appearance of the complex cannot be reconstructed, especially as some of the stones are probably reading stones .
Grave Fpl. 15
There is only information about this grave that it is a long bed.
Destroyed graves
Grave 1
The grave had a burial chamber with a length of 3 m, a width of 1 m and a depth of about 0.9 m; the orientation is not recorded. The chamber was sunk into the ground and only protruded slightly from the ground. Its side walls consisted of large boulders, the spaces between which were filled with dry masonry. The chamber had three cap stones and a pavement made of stone slabs. Despite its size, the facility was classified as a stone box by Ewald Schuldt and Hans-Jürgen Beier , Ingeburg Nilius avoided this term and addressed the grave more generally as a stone grave sunk into the ground.
Human skeletal remains of two individuals were found in the burial chamber. The leg bones were still well preserved. In addition, numerous grave goods were found, some of which came from a subsequent burial of the spherical amphora culture . This included eight ceramic vessels, of which a four-handled pot, a spherical amphora and a fragment of a wart bowl have been preserved. Four vessels, not described in detail, have been lost; only two handles of a second recovered spherical amphora remain. A thick-nosed hatchet , a thin-bladed hatchet, and a complete and a fragmentary flat hatchet were found on stone implements . Several flint blades , axes and chisels have not survived .
To the west, right next to the chamber, a human skeleton had been discovered before 1884.
Grave 2
The second smaller grave had a chamber 1 m long, 0.5 m wide and about 0.9 m deep. It had erratic boulders on the long sides, the narrow sides consisted of stone packings. Although the size here suggests a typical stone box, the grave was classified by Schuldt as a large stone grave of indeterminable type and by Beier only as a presumable stone box.
Remnants of bones were not found here. This grave also contained numerous grave goods. This included several ceramic vessels, only one of which was described in more detail: It was about the size of a fist and covered with a stone. In it were several amber - pearls found, two of which are double-club-shaped and had a disc-shaped. The grave also contained several stone tools, including a chisel, which is the only object that has been found.
literature
- Fifty-third annual report of the Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology. April 1890 - April 1891. In: Baltic Studies. Volume 41, 1891, p. 828 ( online ).
- Stone Age from the island of Usedom. In: Monthly sheets of the society for Pomeranian history, antiquity and art. Volume 3, 1889, pp. 97-100 ( online ).
- 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. 14.
- Robert Burkhardt : The district of Usedom-Wollin. A historical overview. In: District Committee of the District of Usedom-Wollin (Hrsg.): The German bathing islands of Usedom-Wollin. Art print and publishing office, Magdeburg 1934, p. 11.
- Otto Kunkel : Pomeranian prehistory in pictures. Saunier, Stettin 1931, p. 26.
- 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, pp. 109–110.
- Ewald Schuldt : The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. Research on their architecture and function. VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1972, p. 125.
- Emil Walter : The Stone Age vessels in the Szczecin Museum. In: Society for Pomeranian history and antiquity (ed.): Contributions to the history and antiquity of Pomerania. Festschrift for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the grammar school director Professor H. Lemcke as chairman of the Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology. Herrcke & Lebeling, Stettin 1898, pp. 3–4.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Laboemitz stone grave
- KLEKs Online: Great stone grave (Labömitz 1) , Great stone grave (Labömitz 15)
- strahlen.org: destroyed large stone grave "Labömitz 1", Labömitz near Usedom, island of Usedom