Lancken - Granitz Dolmens

The Lancken-Granitz dolmens are a group of seven megalith tombs in the Lancken-Granitz municipality on Rügen, northern Germany [1]. Erected during the middle Neolithic, when they were used by the Funnelbeaker culture, at least some were in use until the early Bronze Age [1]. Three of them are encircled by solitary rocks forming either rectangles or a stone circle, and one has a solitary "guardian stone" on its eastern side [1]. The dolmens were constructed from glacial erratic boulders and red sandstone [1]. When the tombs were archaeologically assessed in 1969, Stone and Bronze Age funerary goods were retrieved, including flint hatches, stone axes, amber pearls, bronze needles and necklaces as well as an abundance of arrowheads and pottery [1]. The dolmens are part of a series built between 3,500 and 3,200 BC, during the Neolithic [1].