Bieserner Borstel
| Bieserner Borstel | ||
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| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Ground monument | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 1 '47 " N , 12 ° 47' 42" E | |
| Height: | 190 m above sea level NN | |
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The Borstel in Biesern , also called Porstel, Borstelberg, Borschel or Alter Wall, in the Seelitz district of Biesern in the district of Central Saxony, is a Slavic ring wall from the early Middle Ages .
Description of the plant
The Borstel is located 300 m south of Biesern on a spur-like ridge pointing west-northwest between the Zwickauer Mulde and the Erlbach. It is a circular area around 55 m in diameter. The surrounding wall is 2 to 3 m wide and 1.5 m high on the outside and 0.5 m on the inside. In the southeast it has largely leveled off. In addition, remnants of the former circumferential trench 3 m wide and 0.5 m deep have been preserved in the northeast and southwest.
Excavations and finds
So far, no modern scientific archaeological excavations have taken place on the Bieserner Borstel . From older, undocumented excavations, among others by Clemens Pfau , several fragments of Slavic ceramics from the Leipzig district and slotted sausage handles from high medieval ceramics, which are kept in the Museum Schloss Rochlitz and in the State Office for Archeology of Saxony .
literature
- Pfau, Topographische Forschungen 19, 88 (72 f.).
- Peacock, ramparts and moats 26–30.
- Geupel, soil monuments 69 No. 18.20.
- Corpus 121/6.
- Geupel, Rochlitz and Wechselburg 214–216.