Bötersen campfire site

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location

The Bötersen campfire site is located in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district in Lower Saxony . He became known nationwide through excavations carried out by Rudolf Dehnke (1914–1988) in 1966/67 . During the construction of the sports field in Bötersen , a number of 51 fireplaces were discovered and documented over a length of 140 m.

description

The Gargruben ( Danish Kokegroper , Swedish Kokgropar med Skärvsten , English Pit Alignments ) in Scandinavia and Northern Germany , first recognized in 1906 (by Wilhelm Deecke (1862–1934)), are a phenomenon of the younger Bronze and Iron Ages . However, recent research calls such sites as cult fire or fire pit sites. They can be found in Germany in an arched area south of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, and to a lesser extent in southern Germany.

A limit to the overall findings of Bötersen was established in the west, to the east it presumably continued over the excavation limit. According to radiocarbon dating, the fireplaces, the urn burial ground only 90 m away and a chain of 33 burial mounds date back to the 10th and 9th centuries BC. The row of fireplaces and the burial ground are related to rituals. Such a constellation was also observed in Akershus (Norway), where reference is made to "cultic meals". The nature of this context cannot, however, be clarified even if similar findings are taken into account, as the material found is sparse. Jens-Peter Schmidt and Dominik Forler see the flint rows as suitable for delimiting the so-called "Nordic Circle of the Bronze Age" in the south and south-west. The findings from Bötersen are of great interest for cross-regional comparisons and analyzes.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sigrid Heidelk-Schacht: Young Bronze Age and Early Iron Age cult fire places in the north of the GDR (1989)
  2. ↑ M. Honeck, Nothing but Hot Stones? For the interpretation of the firing pits of the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age in Germany. Bonn 2009.
  3. ↑ Jens-Peter Schmidt, Dominik Forler, results of the archaeological investigations in Jarmen, Lkr. Demmin and the problem of the fireplace places in northern Germany and southern Scandinavia. Ground monument maintenance in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, yearbook 51, 2003, 31 ff.

Coordinates: 53 ° 7 '48 "  N , 9 ° 20' 16.8"  E