Steingrab Sagerke

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. The regional background, “Megalithic tombs of Poland”, is given below.

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