Dolmen of Laufen
The Laufen dolmen is located in the village and municipality of Laufen in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland . The dolmen was discovered in 1946 and excavated by Alban Gerster.
The rectangular burial chamber made of limestone slabs was found on the site of a slab factory and can now be found under a protective roof in front of the northern city gate of Laufen.
On the reddish weathered east plate, which probably formed the entrance, a soul hole is suspected, through which the skeletons were probably pushed into the sacred space. 121 teeth from 24 adults and 8 children were found.
The grave belongs typologically to the dolmens in the Jura , as they are e.g. B. can also be found in Aesch , Courgenay , Degernau and Schwörstadt .
In 2000, an excavator exposed a 2.90 × 1.70 m limestone slab about 120 m to the southeast. The circumstances of the find indicated that it was a second Neolithic dolmen. The plate was a side wall when the tomb was looted and left behind in Roman times. The remaining stone slabs were probably used for the construction of the nearby Roman villa of Laufen-Müschhag.
The two dolmens are in a shared glass protective structure in front of the Katharinenkirche.
Sources and web links
- www.erratiker.ch - Laufen ( Memento from March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Description French and pictures
Coordinates: 47 ° 25 '23.8 " N , 7 ° 30' 1" E ; CH1903: 604 652 / 252500