Barrow burial ground Vieritzer Berg

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 54.7 "  N , 12 ° 17 ′ 37.7"  E

Barrow burial ground Vieritzer Berg
Barrow number 3 of the barrow field
location	Brandenburg , Germany
Location	Vieritzer Berg
When	prehistory
Where	near Wolfsmühle , Vieritz district

The barrow field Vieritzer Berg is a prehistoric burial place on Vieritzer Berg in the municipality of Milower Land in the west of Brandenburg . Consisting of several burial mounds , it is under the number 50420 as "barrow cemetery Prehistory, Neolithic settlement" as a ground monument reported.

investment

The burial ground is located in the lower area of ​​the wooded northeast slope of the Vieritzer Berg. The ground monument is located about 100 meters west of the Wolfsmühle residential area and about 2.5 kilometers east of the Vieritz district in the Vieritz district in corridor 10.

The burial site consists of five safe and four suspected barrows. On the surface of these were burned corpses and shards of ceramics . The mountain was used as a burial place for thousands of years. Graves at Vieritzer Berg were dated to the Neolithic , Bronze Age and the Slavic Early Middle Ages. The barrows in particular are attributed to higher personalities. The well-known barrows were opened by archaeologists around 1900 . Finds ended up in the prehistoric collection of the district museum Jerichower Land in Genthin . In the mid-1960s, robber excavations of the graves resulted in some considerable destruction or damage.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of monuments of the State of Brandenburg: District Havelland (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum
2. ^ Sebastian children, Haik Thomas Porada (ed.): The Havelland around Rathenow and Premnitz. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2017, p. 292, ISBN 978-3-412-22297-0 .
3. ↑ Peter Wittstock: Spiritually charged place . Published on January 21, 2018 in Märkische Onlinezeitung and in BRAWO . Accessed March 8, 2018.