Harpstedter Rautopf
The Harpstedter Rautopf is a characteristic vessel type of the Harpstedt-Nienburger group from the early Iron Age in northwest Germany . It is named after a site in Harpstedt in the Oldenburg district in Lower Saxony . It is available in the older, broad, and younger, slim form.
description
The walls of the vessels, made of heavily lean clay, are usually roughened. The relatively coarse design has led to the name Rautopf. Rough pots are the only decoration that has a strip under the edge that is notched by fingernail impressions.
The distribution area is relatively closed. Both variants occupy the space between the Aller and the Lower Rhine , with concentrations of finds on the Middle Weser , u. a. in the area of the Holtum March , can be observed. The coastal strip between the Lower Ems and the Lower Weser turns out to be almost empty. The Aller is hardly crossed to the east. In Westphalia , the younger form 2 is slightly more common than the older.
The older form can be dated to the Hallstatt period level (Ha C) or level (Ha D). The more recent form follows in that section of the pre-Roman Iron Age, which corresponds to the southern German early La Tène period .
literature
- Rudolf Stampfuß : Settlement finds from the younger Bronze Age and older Iron Age in the western Ruhr area . In: Sources for West German Prehistory and Early History Volume 7. Bonn 1959.
- Kurt Tackenberg : Westphalia in the prehistory of Northwest Germany: Find maps from the Paleolithic to the time around the birth of Christ (Münster 1996).
