Great stone graves near Friedeburg

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The large stone graves near Friedeburg were several Neolithic megalithic graves of unknown number near Friedeburg (Saale) , a district of Gerbstedt in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz , Saxony-Anhalt . They were destroyed sometime before 1817 for the production of arable land. There are only vague descriptions of the architecture of the facilities: Accordingly, they had mounds containing burial chambers that were "vaulted with unworked stones". Conclusions about the exact type of grave are difficult, Hans-Jürgen Beier assumes real large stone graves or pseudomegalithic wall chamber graves .

Both complete skeletons and urns with corpse burns were found at burials . Several ceramic vessels, a stone ax , flint blades and two stone wedges were found as grave goods . In two graves, numerous pierced teeth of newborns were found, which the buried had worn as jewelry around the neck and waist. Only four ceramic vessels and a shard remain from the additions, which can be assigned to the late Neolithic Walternienburg and Bernburg cultures . The largest of the four vessels is 23.5 cm high, the others are no more than half as large. The objects are now kept in the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle (Saale) . It is unclear whether a cup of the Bernburg culture that is also located there and is said to come from Wettin actually came from the graves in neighboring Friedeburg.

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Beier : The grave and burial customs of the Walternienburg and Bernburg culture. Scientific contributions 1984/30 (L19) of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, ISSN  0440-1298 , p. 123.
  • Hans-Jürgen Beier: The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings and the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Volume 1). Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 66.
  • Ulrich Fischer : The Stone Age graves in the Saale region. Studies on Neolithic and Early Bronze Age grave and burial forms in Saxony-Thuringia (= prehistoric research. Volume 15). De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, p. 271.
  • Christian Keferstein : Views on Celtic antiquities, the Celts in general and especially in Germany. Volume I, Halle 1846, p. 12 ( online ).
  • Nils Niklasson : Studies on the Walternienburg-Bernburger culture 1 (= annual publication for Central German prehistory. Volume 13). Halle (Saale) 1925, pp. 64-65 ( online ).
  • without author: 3rd annual report on the negotiations of the Thuringian-Saxon Association for Research into Patriotic Antiquity. Naumburg 1823, p. 11ff.