Schiepzig large stone grave

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The Großsteingrab Schiepzig (also called Großsteingrab Lettin or Conradshog ) was a Neolithic megalithic grave complex near Schiepzig , a district of the municipality of Salzatal in the Saalekreis , Saxony-Anhalt . The complex was archaeologically examined in 1825 and later destroyed.

location

The exact location of the grave is not known. It is only known that it was somewhere on the high bank of the Saale between Schiepzig and Lettin . This is why it is sometimes referred to as Schiepzig and sometimes as Lettin in the literature. This led to Hermann Behrens mistakenly assuming the existence of a large stone grave for both places.

description

The complex, excavated in 1825 by the Amtsrat Bartels, had an east-west oriented, elongated mound, which contained an equally oriented burial chamber. This was built at ground level from sandstone slabs and had a length of 5 m and a width of 2 m. It should have been a large dolmen . The floor of the chamber was covered with a layer of earth mixed with ash. Skeletal remains were not found. Numerous ceramic vessels, axes made of rock, a flint blade and a cross-cut shoe last wedge were found among grave goods . The vessels still preserved are five cups, a funnel bowl and a bowl, all of which can be assigned to the late Neolithic Bernburg culture . Furthermore, an urn filled with corpse fire was found, which had found its way into the mound as a subsequent burial during the late Bronze Age . All finds are now in the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle (Saale) .

literature

  • Hermann Behrens : The Neolithic Age in the Middle Elbe-Saale area (= publications of the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle. Volume 27). Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1973, p. 299.
  • Hans-Jürgen Beier : The grave and burial customs of the Walternienburg and Bernburg culture. Scientific articles 1984/30 (L19) of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, ISSN  0440-1298 , p. 134.
  • 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. 69.
  • Alfred Götze , Paul Höfer , Paul Zschiesche: The prehistoric and early historical antiquities of Thuringia. Kabitzsch, Würzburg 1909, p. 9, 394 ( online ).
  • Christian Keferstein : Views on Celtic antiquities, the Celts in general and especially in Germany. Volume I, Halle 1846, p. 24 ( online ).
  • Friedrich Karl Hermann Kruse : Report on the antiquities in the area around Halle. In: German antiquities. Volume 1/5, 1825, pp. 37-38 ( online ).
  • Nils Niklasson : Studies on the Walternienburg-Bernburger culture 1 (= annual publication for Central German prehistory. Volume 13). Halle (Saale) 1925, pp. 85-86 ( online ).
  • Waldtraut Schrickel : Catalog of the Central German graves with Western European elements of the gallery graves of Western Germany (= contributions to the prehistoric and early historical archeology of the Mediterranean cultural area. Volume 5). Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 1966, pp. 415-416.