Meppen-Teglingen burial mound
The burial mound of Meppen-Teglingen in Emsland in Lower Saxony is a system of the individual grave culture (EGK) from the Neolithic Age (around 2800–2300 BC)
The grave mound near Osterbrock to the south is characteristic of the grave construction in the northwestern distribution area of the individual grave culture ( Netherlands , northwestern Lower Saxony, Westphalia ). A south-west-north-east oriented pit was dug in the heaped flat hill. A two-meter-long chamber made of oak planks was built in it in which a man was buried. As gifts he received a flint blade, a battle ax and a slender zone cup decorated with cord.
The backfilling of the pit mixed with charcoal proves the use of fire in the burial custom of the individual grave culture , which belongs to the cord ceramic groups . In the course of time, the burial mound was covered by a sand dune and was spared subsequent burials .
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Häßler (Ed.): Prehistory and early history in Lower Saxony . Theiss, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-8062-0495-0 , p. 481/2
Coordinates: 52 ° 37 ′ 54 ″ N , 7 ° 20 ′ 5.1 ″ E