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Sassnitz-Waldhalle 1

Dolmen / Quoit / Cromlech

Fieldnotes

taken from the on-site display board:

Megalithic tomb at the Waldhalle

At about 50 metres lies a megalithic tomb from the Neolithic period. During this time, man gradually began to settle down and raise livestock.
The megalithic tombs were built from 3,500 BC in the Funnel Beaker Culture. On Rügen, the typical construction of megalithic tombs is a grand dolmen. A grand dolmen consists of a burial chamber and a mound bed. In this case, the burial chamber consisted of three yokes. A yoke is composed of two supporting stones and a capstone lying on top of them, which are built up like a gate. The burial chamber is enclosed by stones. This forms the mound bed, which can be angular, round or oval.

In the Funnel Beaker Culture, typical grave goods were pottery sherds and stone artefacts, such as axes, arrowheads, hatchets, shavers and scrapers. As a special feature, amber beads were added. There were repeated reburials in the graves, and the existing resting places were also used from the Bronze Age to the Slavic period.

The megalithic tomb at the Waldhalle is about 5,000 years old. No excavations were carried out. The burial chamber of the grand dolmen is in good condition, which is rather rare. Three quarters of the Megalithic tombs have been destroyed in recent years. The stones were mostly used as building material by the so-called "stone beaters".
Nucleus Posted by Nucleus
29th November 2021ce

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