Ins burial mounds

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Grave mound in the Schaltrain large wood

The burial mounds of Ins ( Anet in French ) lie on the Schaltrain, an elongated, wooded ridge on Lake Biel in the Seeland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland . The 1.8 to 4.8 meter high hills in Holzmatt and Großholz, dating from the earlier Iron Age , were excavated in the 19th century by Gustav von Bonstetten and Emanuel F. Müller.

Four cairns or tumuli have been identified in the Holzmatt area . The grave field in large wood consisted of at least ten hills. The at least 40 individual and wagon graves in the burial mounds , some of which are lavishly furnished with grave goods , date from the Hallstatt period (750–450 BC).

Finds

The dead were buried with amber, ceramics, jewelry and weapons. Special gifts have been found in some graves. Among them were bronze vessels ( situla ), glass, remains of crockery , wheels and wagons and a gold pendulum. The gold sheet with high quality granulation of lotus motifs and diagonal meandering surfaces refers to the Apennine peninsula , where it has parallels in Etruscan tombs. The pendant comes with a 40 cm long gold wire foxtail chain.

They may be socially superior people. The recovered objects are exhibited in the Historical Museum in Bern and in the Museum Schwab in Biel. So far, no contemporary settlement from this region is known, but the area of ​​the later Hasenburg is considered a possible location.

literature

  • Walter Drack: The older iron age of Switzerland. Birkhäuser, Basel 1958, pp. 7-20 ( material booklets on the prehistory and early history of Switzerland. 1: The Canton of Bern. 1, ZDB -ID 1137194-8 ).

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Coordinates: 47 ° 1 '28 "  N , 7 ° 6' 48"  E ; CH1903:  575269  /  208208