Great stone grave Unseburg

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The large stone grave Unseburg was a Neolithic megalithic grave in Unseburg , a district of the municipality of Bördeaue in the Salzlandkreis , Saxony-Anhalt . It was destroyed in the late 19th or early 20th century. There is no information about the exact location or the nature of the grave. It is only known that in 1870 a large number of well-preserved ceramic vessels were found “in a huge ditch” near Unseburg. The only surviving vessel is a 8.8 cm high cup from the Bernburg culture , which first came to the Harz Museum in Wernigerode and is now in the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle (Saale) . The whereabouts of the remaining vessels is unknown.

literature

  • 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. 101.
  • 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. 274.
  • Nils Niklasson : Studies on the Walternienburg-Bernburger culture 1 (= annual publication for Central German prehistory. Volume 13). Halle (Saale) 1925, p. 13 ( online ).