Bad Bevensen humpback burial ground
Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 6 " N , 10 ° 35 ′ 34" E
| Bad Bevensen humpback burial ground | ||
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 Humpback graves on Galgenberg |
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| location | Lower Saxony , Germany | |
| Location | Bad Bevensen | |
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| When | late pre-Roman Iron Age | |
| Where | Bad Bevensen , Lüneburg Heath / Lower Saxony | |
The humpback burial ground of Bad Bevensen in the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony is located in a forest in the north of the town between the L232 and the L253 (roads) west of the Amselstieges on the Galgenberg .
description
A characteristic of humpback graves is that they are embankment or urn graves over which a mound of earth up to 50 cm high has been raised. The mostly richly decorated bowl urn, in which the corpse burn of a pyre was collected, stands in a pit in the middle under the sand hill, which is not fortified by stones. In a few cases there were larger stones above or next to the urn. As a rule, the urns were roughly in the middle of the hill, but often offset to the side and in some cases on the edge of the hill. It is thanks to this fact that the robbery excavations, which could be recognized by pits in the center of the hill, were not always successful.
Sometimes a not completely closed ring trench is covered by the hump. Since almost all ring moats have an opening in the south-southwest, there must be fixed ideas behind this type of grave enclosure, which found their expression in the burial custom. In addition to the urn graves, bones without urns and cremation pits into which pyre ashes had been filled after the remains of bones had been extracted could be found. Sometimes the urn grave was dug in one half of the hill, while the other half was where the cremation pit lay.
Only 54 of the 240 humps in this field have survived ; the rest were archaeologically examined before they were removed. The humpback grave fields of Bad Bevensen and Boltersen (approx. 300 humpback graves at Uhlenberg) are the only grave fields of their kind that can be presented. They date from the younger imperial period (3rd to 5th century AD) in northern Germany .
See also
literature
- Katharina Mohnike: The humpback graves of the younger Roman emperors and peoples migration times in Eastern Lower Saxony. In: Babette Ludowici, Heike Pöppelmann (Hrsg.): The togetherness, side by side and opposition of cultures. On the archeology and history of mutual relationships in the 1st millennium AD (= New Studies on Saxony Research. Vol. 2). Theiss, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-8062-2497-9 , pp. 68-79.
- Heinz Schirnig : Finds and sites around Uelzen Lax Hildesheim 1979 ISBN 3-7848-1904-4