
Großsteingräber bei Gogolewko
DatedEst. 3500–2800 BCE
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The Großsteingräber bei Gogolewko (also known as Großsteingräber bei Neu Jugelow) are at least three megalithic tombs of the Neolithic Funnel Beaker culture near Gogolewko (German Neu Jugelow), in the municipality of Dębnica Kaszubska, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, although they lie within the municipality of Potęgowo. Graves 1 and 2 bear the Sprockhoff numbers 595 and 596, and the group is dated by typological estimate to between 3500 and 2800 BCE.
Grave 1 is a trapezoidal Hünenbett, grave 2 a damaged chamber of uncertain type, and grave 3 survives only as scattered stones.
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Großsteingräber bei Gogolewko
Graves 1 and 2 lie about 3 km north-east of Gogolewko, not far from each other, in a patch of woodland.
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Graves 1 and 2 lie about 3 km north-east of Gogolewko, not far from each other, in a patch of woodland. A third grave lies further north. According to Ernst Sprockhoff, remains of further megalithic tombs may exist in the nearer surroundings. The Großsteingräber bei Łupawa (Großsteingräber bei Lupow) are 2.3 km north-north-east of grave 3.
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Grave 1 is a trapezoidal Hünenbett oriented north-east to south-west, 18 m long and 6.5 m wide at the north-east end and 4 m at the south-west end. Only remains of the stone kerb survive. The eastern corner stone is 1.3 m high; the remaining stones are much smaller, and on the south-western short side they barely protrude from the ground. No chamber can be identified.
Grave 2 has a chamber oriented north-west to south-east, 3 m long and 1 m wide. It probably consisted originally of three pairs of wall stones on the long sides, an end stone at each short end and at most three capstones. The south-eastern end stone, the adjoining wall stone of the south-western long side and the three wall stones of the north-eastern long side survive. On the north-eastern side the middle and northern stones are still in situ, while the southern one has fallen into the chamber. Where the original entrance lay is unclear, so the exact type of the grave cannot be determined with certainty.
Of the third grave only a few stones survive, scattered over a larger area. They are probably the remains of the kerb of a Hünenbett.
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Across the plain from the Netherlands to Poland, the Funnel Beaker culture left thousands of megalithic tombs. Nordic megalith architecture emerged in northern Europe mainly between 3500 and 2800 BCE. Poland has 18 registered monuments of this kind.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Megalithic tombs of the North European Plain
Across the plain from the Netherlands to Poland, the Funnel Beaker culture left thousands of megalithic tombs. Nordic megalith architecture emerged in northern Europe mainly between 3500 and 2800 BCE. Counts have risen as surveys improved: Schleswig-Holstein now reports 3,212 megalithic monuments and 958 long mounds, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 5,991 megaliths (against 648 in 2010), and Lower Saxony 1,155. Altogether 11,162 megaliths are known in these three regions, and with Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt the figure for northern Germany rises to 11,648. Denmark has 5,001 registered monuments, the Netherlands 101, Sweden 639 and Poland 18. Johannes Müller has suggested that originally more than 75,000 megaliths were built.
Monuments are classed by type: simple dolmens, extended dolmens, passage graves, great dolmens, unchambered long barrows and stone cists. The oldest are the simple dolmens, which appeared around 3500 BCE and are found across almost the whole area of Nordic megalith architecture. Their entrances were built to be reopened. A megalithic entrance had to seal the tomb, yet allow the community to gain access to the interior again, even after a long time, to perform rituals.
In the Netherlands the hunebedden were built between 3470 and 3250 BCE and used until about 2760 BCE; 54 of the original 100 survive, 52 of them in Drenthe. Poland has only 18 registered monuments, and the long barrows in parts of Poland were typically earthen rather than megalithic.
Dating combines radiocarbon dates from bone and pottery. The tombs were used by later cultures too, so a single tomb can hold remains from different periods.
When visiting, look at how the capstones sit on the supporting stones, how the entrance is built, and the frame of kerbstones around the mound.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Nordic megalith architecture, Wikipedia: Megaliths in the Netherlands, Wikipedia: Funnel beaker culture, Wikipedia: Megaliths in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern · CC BY-SA 4.0
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- 595 CE
Die Gräber 1 und 2 tragen die Sprockhoff-Nummern 595 und 596.
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Dates
Est. 3500–2800 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for megalithic tombs in Poland; this site has not been dated itself. Polish stone tombs (Grosssteingraber) belong to the Nordic megalith tradition which emerged predominantly between 3500 and 2800 BC.Source for this date
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Poland
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- Coordinates
- 54°22′40″ N, 17°27′13″ EFor a GPS or map app: 54.37787, 17.45358
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Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
- Megalithic tombGroßsteingräber bei Łupawa3500–2800 BCE
- MegalithGroßsteingrab Schöneichen I
- Megalithic tombGroßsteingräber bei Dąbrówno3500–2800 BCE
- MegalithGroßsteingrab Schöneichen II
- MegalithHünenbett Lupow I
- Megalithic tombGroßsteingräber bei Siemirowice3500–2800 BCE
- MegalithSteingrab Schimmerwitz IV
- MegalithSteingrab Sagerke
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- Großsteingräber bei Łupawa3.4 km N
- Großsteingrab Schöneichen I5.7 km N
- Großsteingräber bei Dąbrówno5.7 km N
- Großsteingrab Schöneichen II5.7 km N
- Hünenbett Lupow I7.2 km N
- Großsteingräber bei Siemirowice18 km E
- Steingrab Schimmerwitz IV18 km E
- Steingrab Sagerke35 km W
- Großsteingrab Zagórki35 km W
- Dolmen Franzen35 km W
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