A Gallery Grave Holding 52 Stone Blades

Fifty-two blades sleep beneath Mecklenburg-Vorpommern soil. This record belongs to a single site. They rest inside a gallery grave crafted 3500 to 2800 BC by the Funnelbeaker Culture.

Within Thelkow, the tomb rises as heavy stone. The chamber measures six meters long. Red sandstone slabs and red-fired clay mortar form the entrance passage. Subsequent peoples reused this space, leaving behind human bones, charcoal, amber beads, and hammerstones.

Now a reconstructed megalithic tomb named Liepen 8, it waits in silence. Follow a forest path off a field road near the Recknitz river to find the site.

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