Zörbig large stone grave
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 37 '31.4 " N , 12 ° 8' 35.1" E | ||
| place | Zörbig , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
The Zörbig large stone grave was a Neolithic megalithic burial site near Zörbig in the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district , Saxony-Anhalt . It was destroyed at the end of the 19th century.
location
The grave was located east of Zörbig on the Galgenberg . An industrial park extends at this point today .
Research history
The system was discovered during gravel mining. It was excavated by Reinhold Schmidt in 1885/86 and destroyed a little later.
description
The grave had a mound, which contained a north-south oriented burial chamber with a length of over 5 m and a width of 1 m. The chamber consisted of boulders and had a clay - dish as a floor. Since no corridor could be determined, the grave could most likely be addressed as a large dolmen due to its size .
Skeletal remains were apparently no longer preserved. Of grave goods more ceramic vessels, two were Feuerstein - hatchets and a bone-ax found. The vessels consisted of four spherical amphoras , a wide-mouthed pot and two bowls that have only survived in fragments. All finds belong to the late Neolithic spherical amphora culture ; According to Ulrich Fischer , however, this is likely to be a subsequent burial and the actual construction of the grave would be assigned to the Walternienburg or Bernburg culture . The finds are now in the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle (Saale) .
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 , pp. 121-122.
- Hans-Jürgen Beier: The globe amphora culture in the Middle Elbe-Saale area and in the Altmark (= publications of the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle. Volume 41). Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1988, ISBN 978-3-326-00339-9 , pp. 126–127.
- 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. 65.
- 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, pp. 152ff., 160, 275, 296.
- Hans Priebe : The western group of spherical amphorae. In: Annual publication for Central German prehistory. Volume 28, 1938, p. 81.
- Reinhold Schmidt: From Zörbig and the surrounding area. In: New communications from the field of historical-antiquarian research. Volume 19, 1896, pp. 168-170 ( online ).