Flint chisel

A small flint chisel, five clay amphorae, two amber ornaments, and a boar skull belonged to the burial equipment of a Neolithic megalithic tomb of the Globular Amphora culture, dated to the period between the end of the 4th and the first half of the 3rd millennium BC. The discovery was made by accident in 1882 during spring fieldwork on the land of the Liskowo farmstead (German: Grünhof) belonging to the Rąbin estate (German: Gross Rambin). The tomb chamber was opened under the eye of the estate owner, who took the skeletons and grave goods found inside to the manor house. After his death, his wife decided to bury the skeletons, while some relics were donated to the Szczecin Museum collection in 1891. In 1892, Adolf Stubenrauch, the keeper of the collection gathered in Szczecin, came to Rąbin to obtain more information about the appearance of the tomb. The witness accounts he collected became the basis for a detailed description of the chamber's construction, burial layout and donations. From a family member, an assessor from Frankfurt (Oder), Stubenrauch managed to obtain two amphorae, which were not deposited in the Museum in 1891. The findings from Rabin became a permanent feature in exhibitions of Pomeranian antiquities. In 1915 a plaster model of the tomb was made based on the construction of the Rąbin monument. It was prepared from the Stubenrauch's drawing by Hermann Schulz, a modeller from Szczecin. The model has survived in the Museum collection, just like the drawing used to reproduce the megalith in the contemporary coat of arms of the Rąbino commune. Some of the relics from the tomb were less fortunate. Some vessels were lost, one of which was evacuated from the Museum in 1942. The remains of amber ornaments and a boar fang were also lost in unknown circumstances.

Krzysztof Kowalski