District ditch facility Glöthe
The district moat system Glöthe is a circular moat system of the young Neolithic Baalberg culture near Glöthe , a district of Staßfurt in the Salzlandkreis , 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 23 × 11.5 m in the northern area of the facility.
Findings
The facility consists of a double trench and has a total diameter of around 140 m. It has an opening in the east that points to Wartenberg , 1.8 km away . Both trenches were dug as bottom trenches. The outer one has a depth between 0.85 m and 1.05 m and a width between 2.30 m and 2.60 m. The inner one has a depth between 0.90 m and 1.00 m and a width between 2.40 m and 3.20 m. Both trenches were filled with humus , also with a clay- earth mixture directly above the bottom . In the backfilling of both trenches, material was stored that originally came from a wall piled up between them.
Finds
Bone fragments, flint artifacts and ceramic shards came to light. From the latter, one or two bowls with a funnel rim and a bowl with a finger-dab decoration running under the edge could be reconstructed.
Dating
Using the radiocarbon method, some of the boils could be dated to 3660–3370 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 ).