Dederstedt district moat
The Dederstedt district moat is a district moat of the early Neolithic Baalberg culture near Dederstedt , a district of the lake district of Mansfelder Land in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz , Saxony-Anhalt .
Research history
The facility was discovered during an aerial survey by the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology of Saxony-Anhalt . In 2005 a test excavation was carried out by the Institute for Art History and Archeology of Europe at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg under the direction of André Spatzier . The excavation was carried out on an area of 28 × 10 m in the southern area of the facility. In addition, a 30 × 2 m search section was created inside.
Findings
The facility consists of a D-shaped, oval double trench and measures around 105 × 120 m. It has at least one opening that is located in the northeast. Both trenches were created as pointed trenches. The outer one has a depth between 1.30 m and 1.80 m and a width of 3.50 m. The inner one has a depth between 0.50 m and 1.10 m and a width of 2 m. Both trenches were filled with humus , in the lower third there was flooding of clay with partly a small amount of humus. In addition to the two trenches, a pit was also explored, which was located in the inner surface of the facility and had an ash-containing filling layer in the lower area .
Finds
Few finds were made in the trenches. These include pottery shards, Silexabschläge and -kernreste and some animal bones. The pit contained more finds. These included flint cuts, animal bones, clay , ceramics and annealed stones. A chunk of cottage clay showed traces of wickerwork . Under the pottery there were fragments of the neck and shoulder of an amphora with four eyelets for handles on the neck and shoulder fold, which have dovetail-shaped strips with notch decoration. Two flint artifacts from the pit and the outer trench fit together. This proves that a circular ditch and a pit were created at the same time.
Dating
Using the radiocarbon method, some of the boils could be dated to 3640–3350 cal. BC. This, as well as the ceramics, allows the circular moat to be assigned to the late phase of the Baalberg culture.
literature
- Ralf Schwarz: Pilot studies - Twelve years of aerial archeology in Saxony-Anhalt. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2003, ISBN 3-910010-72-5 .
- André Spatzier: Circular moats of the 4th-1st centuries Millennium BC In Central Germany. Preliminary report on the 2005 excavations in Saxony-Anhalt. In: Archeology in Saxony-Anhalt. NF Volume 6, 2012, pp. 71-89 ( online ).
- André Spatzier: After Bandkeramik and Lengyel - circular moats in Saxony-Anhalt and Central Europe from the early Neolithic to the early Iron Age. In: François Bertemes , Harald Meller (ed.): Neolithic circular moats in Europe. International workshop in Goseck (Saxony-Anhalt) 7. – 9. May 2004 (= conferences of the State Museum for Prehistory Halle. Volume 8) State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt - State Museum for Prehistory, Halle (Saale) 2012, ISBN 978-3-939414-33-9 , pp. 363–388 ( Online ).
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Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 15.4 " N , 11 ° 40 ′ 43" E