Vollmarshausen cemetery
The cemetery of Vollmarshausen is a burial place of the younger Bronze and Iron Ages in the Vollmarshausen district of Lohfelden in northern Hesse . The burial ground is one of the most important finds of the younger Bronze and Iron Ages in Central Europe.
location
The site is located on the eastern edge of the Kassel basin, northeast of the village on the southeast slope of the Lindenberg towards Niederkaufungen, and nearby is the cemetery at Niederkaufungen , which also has Neolithic finds. The names of the corridors are "At the sand holes" and "Am Käsewege".
history
The first urns were discovered during sand mining in 1951 . 1961–1964 the burial ground was uncovered and the finds were brought into the collection of the State Museum (today: Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel ).
In total, the field consists of 252 graves and a cremation site. It contained ceramic vessels in which the corpses - the cremation remains of the dead picked from the pyre - were buried, as well as grave pits and tree coffins . The graves were marked with stone steles , and bronzes, amber , glass, stone utensils and ceramics were found as additions .
The cemetery was used for the period from approx. 1000 BC. Until about 500 BC Determined.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 35 ″ N , 9 ° 34 ′ 48 ″ E