Long bed

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Length scheme of Schleswig-Holstein megalithic beds
Long bed at birch moor
Long bed Krausort
Long bed at Rothensande

A long bed or Hünenbett ( English long barrow or Long Cairn , Dutch Hunebed ; Swedish Långdös ; Danish Langdyss ) is a Stone Age burial place in the form of a rectangular or trapezoidal hill, which is surrounded intact by a curb chain. Curbs of trapezoidal long beds are usually graduated in height. It can contain a megalithic chamber or be " (stone) chamberless ". Excavations show that "chamberless" long beds usually contained a wooden chamber. Long beds come from the late Neolithic of Northern Europe and Scandinavia or the early Neolithic of the British Isles. In addition to round hills and a few other forms, long beds can be found in the entire distribution area of Nordic megalithic architecture. They are between about 20 and more than 180 meters long. They are not Konens Høj or Niedźwiedź type systems .

Well-known long beds

Well-known examples from Schleswig-Holstein are:

  • Long bed on the Ruserberg

  • Hune bed of Waabs-Karlsminde

See also

literature

  • Johannes Groht: Temple of the ancestors. Megalithic buildings in Northern Germany . AT Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-03800-226-7 .
  • Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 1-3 . Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1966–1975. ISBN 3-7749-1326-9
  • Ernst Sprockhoff: Chamberless giant beds in the Sachsenwald . In: Offa , Vol. 13 (1954), pp. 1-16, ISSN  0078-3714 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ However, the names do not match , cf. Jan Albert Bakker, Is a social differentiation detectable in the TRB culture? Jungsteinsite 2010, 5
  2. ^ Peter Vilhelm Glob: prehistoric monuments of Denmark . Gyldendal, 1968, p. 43: "If the surrounding mound of earth and stone wreath are circular, such a monument is called a round dyssey, while it is elongated and square, a long dyssey or a giant bed”.
  3. ^ Jan Albert Bakker, Is a social differentiation detectable in the TRB culture? Jungsteinsite 2010, 5
  4. ↑ R. Kossian, Non-Megalithic Graves of the Funnel Beaker Culture in Germany and the Netherlands, Halle 2005.
  5. ↑ Alastair Whittle et al. Histories of the dead: building chronologies for five southern British long barrows. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 17, 2007, Supplement, 85-101. doi : 10.1017 / S0959774307000182 , Timothy Darvill , Long barrows of the Cotswolds and surrounding areas. Stroud, Tempus 2004, ISBN 0752429078

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