Hünenbett Lupow I

In Poland the best-known megalithic monuments are the Kuyavian long barrows, also called Kuyavian Pyramids, Kuyavian Mounds, Graves of Giants or the Polish Pyramids. They are enormous tombs in Kuyavia, built in the late stage of the Younger Stone Age, about 3000 to 2200 BCE, over a period of no more than 500 years. They show a relatively high level of architectural knowledge, the use of simple devices such as levers, and good organisation of the builders' labour. The tombs are oriented east-west, which indicates knowledge of basic astronomy. Most are elongated trapezoids, less often circular, and outside Eastern Kuyavia they occur in Western Pomerania. Two clusters, now archaeological reserves, are near Izbica Kujawska, at Wietrzychowice and Sarnowo. Further down this page, About this kind of monument gives the whole of “Megalithic tombs of Poland”.

This site is undated in the open records the Atlas draws on, and the Atlas does not guess a date for it. Where a regional range exists for this kind of monument it is given in the notes on this page, as background and not as a date for this site.