Grammdorf stone chamber
The stone chamber of Grammendorf is a passage grave with weakly trapezoidal chamber, south of the Strait of Johannes village after village grams (at the junction for Meischenstorf) (municipality Wangels in Ostholstein in Schleswig-Holstein is located).
It is a deepened (thus older) passage grave in the style of the ancient dolmen , which was discovered near the current location - during fieldwork. In 1982 it was excavated by the State Office for Prehistory and Early History and moved to its current location in 1983. A missing capstone was replaced. The passage grave is a form of Neolithic megalithic systems , which consists of a chamber and a structurally separated, lateral passage. This form is primarily found in Denmark, Germany and Scandinavia, as well as occasionally in France and the Netherlands.
The chamber is said to have belonged to an approximately 40 m long barn bed . On the west side of the chamber, the mound reached just below the capstone, on the east side it was halfway up the chamber. The approximately north-south oriented chamber, which is wider in the north, has internal dimensions of 3.0 m in length and 1.6–1.8 m in width. A pair of bearing stones was preserved from the corridor, three bearing stones inclined slightly inward on the western long side. In the east there were originally two bearing stones, one of which is missing. The chamber has two bearing stones on each narrow side. In the south of the east side was the entrance with a threshold stone . Only one of the three capstones was originally preserved. In places there was intermediate masonry made of flat stones. The chamber sole was covered with a continuous layer of burned flint. In front of the northern narrow side, a 0.7–0.8 m wide quarter was partitioned off with upright stone slabs . In the quarters there was a plaster made of roughly hand-sized, reddish-gray sandstone slabs on the baked flint.
The chamber was half filled with loamy sand. There was a beaker and a two-handled spherical amphora in the quarters. Two more vessels are said to have stood here. A small bowl was found a little south of the quarter. In the southeast corner of the chamber, behind a thin, upright stone slab, there was a cup of the individual grave culture .
The burial chamber, which was used for burial, was based on the additions of the spherical amphora culture (KAK) to 2700 BC. Dated. Since this usually involves subsequent burials , the construction of the megalithic complex should have been between 3500 and 2800 BC. BC by the carriers of the funnel beaker culture (TBK), of which, however, no traces were found.
About 800 years later, the burial chamber was used to bury several dead. Of these burials found the grave goods (a cup made of ceramics, one comes pearl of amber , three hatchets and eleven arrowheads).
See also
literature
- Jutta Roß: Megalithic graves in Schleswig-Holstein. Investigations into the structure of the tombs based on recent excavation findings . Kovač, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-86064-046-1 , (also: Hamburg, Univ., Master's thesis, 1987).
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 1: Schleswig-Holstein. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966, p. 75.
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Coordinates: 54 ° 15 ′ 52.6 ″ N , 10 ° 49 ′ 53.4 ″ E