Lancken-Granitz dolmens

Local nameGroßsteingrab Lancken-Granitz 1
LocationLancken-Granitz, Deutschland

The Lancken-Granitz dolmens are a group of seven megalith tombs in the Lancken-Granitz municipality on Rügen, northern Germany. Erected during the middle Neolithic, when they were used by the Funnelbeaker culture, at least some were in use until the early Bronze Age. Three of them are encircled by solitary rocks forming either rectangles or a stone circle, one has a solitary "guardian stone" on its eastern side.

The dolmens were constructed from glacial erratic boulders and red sandstone. In part subdivided into up to four compartments as common for the region, one dolmen showed a subdivision into six such compartments, which is an unusually high number. When the tombs were archaeologically assessed in 1969, Stone and Bronze Age funerary goods were retrieved, including flint hatches, stone axes, amber pearls, bronze needles and necklaces as well as an abundance of arrowheads and pottery.

Tags Archaeological SiteMegalith
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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancken-Granitz_dolmens

Official Website http://grosssteingraeber.de/seiten/deutschland/mecklenburg-vorpommern/insel-ruegen/lancken-3.php

Address 18586, Germany

Coordinates 54°21'45.684" N 13°37'4.865" E

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