Lettin burial mound
The grave mounds of Lettin are a group of several grave mounds from the Neolithic and an unknown period near Lettin , a district of Halle (Saale) in Saxony-Anhalt .
location
Most of the hills are located north and northwest of Lettin near the Lunz Mountains near the steep slope to the Saaleniederung . Some structures that could be burial mounds have also been identified to the west of the village. Numerous other burial mounds are known from the surrounding area, about southeast in Kröllwitz , south in the Dölauer Heide , west near Schiepzig and Salzmünde , and beyond the Saale near Brachwitz and Morl . There was also a large stone grave between Lettin and Schiepzig , which was destroyed in the 19th century.
description
About 0.7 km northwest of the village there are three hills standing next to each other. Just a little to the east there is another on the Kirschberg. The hills are between 11 and 12 m in diameter and around 1 m high. The two western hills show strong disturbances. The systems are dated to the Neolithic.
0.6 km further to the northwest are two hills, also built in the Neolithic. The first has a diameter of 10 m and is covered with field stones in the southwest. The second is very flat and no longer clearly recognizable as a hill.
A seventh burial mound from the Neolithic is located in the northeastern area of the Kirschberg on the "Schäferling", directly on the steep slope. Its diameter is about 12-14 m and its height about 1.5 m.
The assignment of a structure north of the Roitzschweg in the Lunzberge nature reserve is uncertain . It has a depression that probably comes from a position. It is unknown whether a position was sunk into a burial mound here or whether the mound was first filled in during the construction of the position.
Addressing several structures about 1.5 km west of Lettin on the road to Schiepzig is also uncertain. It could be about five heavily plowed burial mounds, but this is in some cases doubted because, despite the very good research in this area, there are no references to this in the literature.
literature
- Small question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture February 25, 2016 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/9061) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt . Pp. 2-3.
- Erhard Schröter: The protected ground monuments of the Halle district. In: Annual publication for Central German prehistory. Volume 69, 1986, p. 73 ( online ).
Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '50.6 " N , 11 ° 53' 30.3" E
