Stone box from Moltzow
The stone box of Moltzow was a stone box grave of the Neolithic funnel cup culture near Moltzow in the Mecklenburg Lake District ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). It was archaeologically examined in 1845 under the direction of Albrecht von Maltzahn and later destroyed. The finds made during the excavation ended up in the collection of the Archaeological State Museum Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Schwerin , but are no longer preserved.
location
The stone box was on the western slope above the former moor bordering the Moltzow estate . Several preserved and destroyed large stone graves , a stone circle and numerous Bronze Age burial mounds are also known from Moltzow .
description
The grave was built on sandy ground and had a rounded mound surrounded by a stone ring. A small, east-west oriented burial chamber made of red sandstone slabs stood inside. It was 5 feet (about 1.5 m) long and 3.5 feet (about 1 m) wide. The chamber was filled with sand and contained small pieces of red sandstone that might have come from the removed cover plate. Only poorly preserved remains of a human skull were left from the funeral. The only grave object found was a jug with a large ribbon handle, a spherical base and a decoration made up of vertical groups of lines.
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, ZDB -ID 916540-X ). Beier & Beran, Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 38, (At the same time: Halle-Wittenberg, University, habilitation paper, 1991: The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings as well as the menhirs in the five new East German federal states (formerly GDR). ) .
- Robert Beltz : The prehistoric antiquities of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Complete list of the finds preserved in the Grand Ducal Museum in Schwerin. Text tape. Reimer, Berlin 1910, p. 113, ( online ).
- Albrecht von Maltzahn , Johann Ritter , Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : Hünengräber and other old graves at Moltzow (cf. Jahresber. VI, p. 133 and 134). In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 10, 1845, ISSN 0259-7772 , pp. 263-267, ( 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. Vol. 5). Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Schwerin 1971, p. 100, (also: Halle-Wittenberg, University, dissertation, 1966).
