Burial mound on the Radberg

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Burial mound with a keyhole

The 149 grave mounds excavated between 1926 and 1936 on the Radberg near Reken- Hülsten ( Borken district ) primarily date from the end of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age . The archaeologist Erich Schumacher found out during follow-up examinations of the finds in 2005 that the Radberg was used as a burial ground for cremation graves from the older Bronze Age to the earlier Iron Age .

Hill III

Hill III contains ten safe burials, mostly without dating additions. The grave shaft held a grave pit of 2.6 × 1.2 × 0.65 m with a stool burial, head in the west, with a bronze spiral arm in a birch bark box as an addition. According to Lanting (1973, 306 f. Note 3) an older, possibly end-Neolithic grave was disturbed by this grave, which contained two arrow shaft smoothers, two arrowheads made of flint, a knocking stone and a few scrapers. A beaker with a curved profile and a vertical feather pattern made from fingernail notches may belong to the same period. Muzzle diameter about 10.0 cm, height 9.5 cm. Two other vessels are younger:

  • Mug with stand and two rows of circumferential fingernail pits on the shoulder. Muzzle diameter about 12.0 cm, height 15.3 cm. The cup was placed over the corpse burn.
  • Undecorated mug with stand. Muzzle diameter about 9.5 cm, height 9.5 cm.

The Bronze Age burials include a circular moat grave field with urn graves, posts or ramparts and low hills. Many of the grave sites on the Radberg are surrounded by northwest-southeast oriented round, oval and so-called keyhole trenches, which are characteristic of the younger Bronze Age in Westphalia . Grave mounds with keyhole trenches were first uncovered here in 1926. It was the beginning of the exploration of the "Kreisgrabengräberfelder in northwestern Germany", some of which can be explored in aerial photographs. A burial mound with a double circular moat is also located on the burial ground.

literature

  • Hubert Kroll: The prehistoric cemetery on the Radberg in Hülsten, Borken district (Westphalia) . Message from the Ruhrland Museum of the City of Essen, No. 109. Weimar
  • Niels Bantelmann: End neolithic finds in the Rhenish-Westphalian area Offa Vol. 44 ISBN 3-5290-1144-4
  • Erich Schumacher: Two old excavations for the Bronze and Imperial Ages. The Bronze Age burial ground on the Radberg near Hülsten, Kr. Borken. The imperial settlement of Hinsel in Essen-Überruhr . Publications of the Antiquities Commission for Westphalia, Aschendorff Verlag 2005, ISBN 978-3-402-05040-8
  • Daniel Bérenger, Christoph Grünewald (eds.): Westphalia in the Bronze Age, LWL Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-8053-3932-2

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Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ 29.5 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 57 ″  E