Urdolmen from Barkvieren

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The Urdolmen of Barkvieren
Transversely lying on the right - and longitudinally lying like Barkvieren on the left

The Urdolmen of Barkvieren is located about 1.3 km northwest of two largely destroyed systems in the Gnewitz district of Barkvieren in the Rostock district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

Bar four with access from above (top right)

The east-west oriented megalithic complex is a large stone grave of the funnel cup culture (TBK) and was created between 3500 and 2800 BC. Chr. She has no Sprockhoff number. because it was only discovered in 1959. “Neolithic monuments are an expression of the culture and ideology of Neolithic societies. Their origin and function are considered to be the hallmarks of social development ”.

description

The approximately 26 m long system was excavated and reconstructed by Ewald Schuldt in 1965 . It is a parallel arched dolmen with five bearing stones and two cap stones (one preserved) and access from above (a very early form), at the east end of a slightly trapezoidal (about 4.6 and 3.1 m wide) barn bed, which is only partially preserved (27 stones in the southeast, 59 missing). It had two guard stones on the broad side, one of which has been preserved broken. Apart from four pieces of broken glass, no finds were made as it had already been looted .

See also

literature

  • Ewald Schuldt : The dolmen of Barkvieren, Rostock district. In: Ground monument maintenance in Mecklenburg. Yearbook 1966. 1967, pp. 25-29.
  • Ewald Schuldt: The Mecklenburg megalithic graves. German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1972.

Web links

Commons : Großsteingrab Barkvieren 3  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. J. Müller In: Varia neolithica VI 2009 p. 15

Coordinates: 54 ° 5 '48.4 "  N , 12 ° 29' 2.2"  E