Honert cave
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| Location: | Volkringhausen , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany | |
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Geographic location: |
51 ° 22 '30 " N , 7 ° 52' 42" E | |
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| Type: | Culture cave | |
| Overall length: | about 50 meters | |
| Level difference: | 16 meters | |
The Honert cave was a cave in Volkringhausen in the Grübeck valley between the Eisborn district of Balver and the Hönnetal . It was located in the mass limestone of the upper Middle Devon .
The cave was about 800 meters above the junction of the B 515 in the direction of Eisborn in a limestone cliff on the south-eastern wall of the valley and fell victim to the limestone quarry. It consisted of two or three chambers. Two were connected by a 28 meter long corridor. At the end of the cave there was a large hall that was 9 meters long and 5 meters wide. The deepest point of the crevasse cave was 16 meters below the cave entrance level.
The geologist Julius Andree , Münster, carried out excavations in the Hönnetal in 1925 and 1926. During four excavations in the Honert Cave, Andree found remains of a Stone Age burial in the rear part of the cave , ceramic shards from the Iron Age , four three- pfennig pieces from the city of Hamm (minted in 1736 and 1737) and one three- pfennig piece from the city of Soest (1740) made of copper.
Previously, excavations were carried out by Emil Carthaus in 1891. He found pieces of a human skull, pot shards and fossil bones.
The cave was also the site of ceramics from the earlier Iron Age .
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- ↑ Helmuth Hoffmann and Joachim W. Ziegler: From the prehistory of the Iserlohn district - cultures of the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age , reading and workbook on regional studies of the Iserlohn district, issue 5, Menden 1972, p. 27.
- ↑ Ruhrtalmuseum : A forgery workshop in the Hönnetal Access: April 1, 2010
- ↑ Münster's contributions to prehistoric and early historical archeology, edited by Albrecht Jockenhövel “The ceramics of the older Iron Age in the low mountain range between the Rhine and Werra”, Frank Verse (sites in the Märkisches Kreis, cat. No. 474/243) , ISSN 1861-3942 Accessed: April 1, 2010