Siegendorf burial mound
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The Bronze Age burial mounds of Siegendorf (Croatian: Cindrof, Hungarian: Cinfalva) in the market town of Siegendorf in the Eisenstadt-Umgebung district , in Burgenland in Austria, are about one kilometer from the open-air facility of the Burgenland State Museum in the nature and landscape protection area "Siegendorfer Puszta und Heide".
The four burial mounds are part of the Čaka culture (around 1200 BC). In the largest was a stone box . The corpse burn of the man buried with a lance, knife and sword was found together with a set of clay dishes, a bronze robe needle and a razor . Graves of men and women have been discovered in the neighboring hills. The settlement belonging to the grave area is likely to have been on the other bank of the salt lake, which was drained only 100 years ago.
The small group of burial mounds is one of the few necropolises of the Čaka culture discovered in Austria, which documents the Middle Bronze Age traditions at the beginning of the Urnfield Age on the western edge of the Carpathian Basin .
During the excavations, 4 traces of an older settlement and a cremation from around 3900 BC were found below the burial mound. BC (Epi-Lengyel horizon). The finds from the excavations are exhibited in the Burgenland State Museum in Eisenstadt .
literature
- Elisabeth Ruttkay: Epilengyel settlement finds and cremation grave from Siegendorf 1985
- Otto Helmut Urban : Guide to the prehistory of Austria. Vienna 1989. p. 136
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Coordinates: 47 ° 46 ′ 43.6 ″ N , 16 ° 34 ′ 32.2 ″ E