Ankum-Druchhorn burial ground

The Bronze Age burial ground of Ankum-Druchhorn is located about 1.5 km southwest of the town near the "Esselmannschen Heuerhaus" in the Druchhorn district of Ankum in Lower Saxony .

Scheme of a burial mound with a keyhole - in Ankum without posts and cult niches

The cemetery was investigated in 1976, as sporadic finds had been made since the 19th century. Three larger burial mounds and about 30, approximately northwest-southeast oriented, burial mounds with keyhole trenches and round circular trenches were excavated. The trenches run around or have interruptions in the northeast. The interruptions in the keyhole trenches were at the transition from the round part to the forecourt.

The circular trenches enclosed areas with a diameter of 2.1 to 4.1 m. The length of the systems with keyhole trenches varies between 4.6 and 9.5 m; their circular parts have a diameter of 2.7–6.0 m. The width of the atria was 2.0–5.0 m. The burials mostly took place in the middle of the circles or in the middle of the round part of the keyhole trenches. The areas usually contained 1–2 burials, occasionally only charcoal remains. The burials were found in urns or as bones. The latter are likely to have been buried in containers made of past organic material (e.g. wood or leather). Peripheral locations indicate subsequent burials . The graves were usually hilly, with the keyhole-shaped graves only the round part was occasionally hilly.

While the larger burial mounds belong to the older or the beginning of the younger Bronze Age , the grave enclosures covered by flat hills can be assigned to an advanced stage of the younger Bronze Age (period V according to Montelius ) due to the grave ceramics found .

See also

• Burial mound with double circular moat

literature

• Wolfgang Schlüter : Grave fields of the Bronze and Iron Age in the Druchhorn district, Ankum municipality, Osnabrück district In: New excavations and research in Lower Saxony, Vol. 13, 1979, pp. 111–156.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Grave mounds with keyhole ditches are a phenomenon that can be found in Central Europe, especially in northwest Germany, in the area of ​​the Lower Rhine grave mound culture. During the younger Bronze Age around (1200 to 800 BC) it was customary to burn the dead on a stake

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