Stone box from Langwitz
The Langwitz stone box, which was examined and restored in 1958, is located north of Langwitz on the border with Basedow in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
The large stone box without Sprockhoff no. marks the transition from collective graves to individual burials in the late phase of the Central European megalithic systems . The stone box is completely preserved. It consists of sandstone slabs . It is covered by two cover plates, while the four long sides consist of only one stone plate each. A view of the large stone grave is possible from one side .
See also
literature
- 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 .
- Karl Weinhold : The pagan funeral burial in Germany. In: Session reports of the Philosophical-Historical Class of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Vol. 29, 1858, ISSN 1012-487X , pp. 117-204 .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 39 ′ 56.2 " N , 12 ° 42 ′ 8.1" E