Großsteingräber bei Lütjenbrode — Großsteingrab bei Lütjenbrode. Grab 2 Ansicht Westseite. Der Grabhügel liegt auf einer Wiese und ist mit Weißdorn bewachsen.

Megalithic tomb

Großsteingräber bei Lütjenbrode

Germany

DatedEst. 3500–2800 BCE

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The Großsteingräber bei Lütjenbrode are three megalithic tombs of the Neolithic Funnel Beaker culture near Lütjenbrode, a part of Großenbrode in the district of Ostholstein, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. They are typologically dated to 3500 to 2800 BCE and carry the Sprockhoff numbers 265–267.

The group comprises a probable great dolmen, a heavily disturbed chamber on a round mound, and a passage grave of the Holsteiner Kammer subtype.

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The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.

Est. 3500–2800 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical for this type

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Großsteingräber bei Lütjenbrode

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Grave 1 lies north of Lütjenbrode in a field close to the Baltic Sea shore. Graves 2 and 3 lie 1.6 km east-north-east of it, also close to the shore and directly beside a path. Grave 3 is 60 m east of grave 2. The Großsteingräber bei Großenbrode lie 2.6 km north-east of grave 3.

Adjoining the two eastern wall stones is a pair of smaller stones whose exact function is unclear.

Großsteingräber bei Lütjenbrode

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Grave 1 has an oval mound aligned east to west, 10 m long and 5.5 m wide, with a preserved height of 1.5 m. The chamber, also aligned east to west, is probably a great dolmen about 5.5 m long and 1.3 m wide, with five pairs of wall stones on the long sides. The end stones on the narrow sides and the probably five cover stones are missing. Adjoining the two eastern wall stones is a pair of smaller stones whose exact function is unclear.

Grave 2 has a round mound with a diameter of 10 m and a preserved height of 0.7 m. On it lie seven stones of a heavily disturbed chamber, perhaps aligned east to west. Five of the stones appear to be fragments of blasted cover stones, and two were interpreted by Sprockhoff as possible wall stones. The exact dimensions and type of the chamber cannot be determined without an excavation.

Grave 3 has a slightly oval mound 10 m long and 9 m wide. The chamber, aligned east to west, is a passage grave of the Holsteiner Kammer subtype, 5.5 m long and 1.5 m wide. Four wall stones on the northern long side and five on the southern, the eastern end stone and one stone north-west of the chamber that cannot be precisely identified are preserved. The eastern end stone and the four adjoining wall stones of the south side still stand in situ. The fifth stone of the south side has been blasted and has fallen, the northern wall stones are displaced, and the western end stone is missing.

Of the probably four original cover stones, Sprockhoff in 1933 could identify only a large fragment of the easternmost one, lying outside the chamber; this has since disappeared. The second and third wall stones of the south side are set transversely and form the original entrance, preceded by a passage with one pair of wall stones. No cover stone survives there. The passage is 2 m long and 0.6 m wide.