Mortuary
| Mortuary
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 Entrance to the mortuary cave |
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| Location: | Balve , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany | |
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Geographic location: |
51 ° 22 '28.2 " N , 7 ° 51' 34.1" E | |
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| Geology: | Rhenish Slate Mountains | |
| Overall length: | 35 m | |
The Mortuary Cave is a cave in Balve . It is located on a rock face of the Devonian mass limestone near Binolen , to the east and about 25 meters above the bottom of the Hönne valley . The owner is the Rheinisch-Westfälische Kalkwerke , Ober-Rödinghausen.
The cave is about 35 m long. At the end of the tube cave there is an approximately 20 m² room. Skeletal finds indicate that the room was used as a burial place during the Bronze or Iron Ages. Bats hibernate here from November to April.
literature
- Chronologically
- Bernhard Bahnschulte : The corpse cave, the strangest cultural cave in the Hönnetal (Westphalia), Hallstatt. Communications on cave and karst research, 1941, pp. 25–33, 6 fig. 741
- Walter Sönnecken: Caves of the Sauerland. 1966, pp. 24-25
- Heinrich Streich: Underground magic realms of the Sauerland. 1967, pp. 71-72
- Wilhelm Bleicher : The importance of the Iron Age cave finds of the Hönnetal: a contribution to the prehistory and early history of the northern Sauerland. Friends of Altena Castle, 1991, p. 88
- Gisela Graichen : The cult place book. Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, Hamburg , pp. 267-269
See also
Web links
Commons : Mortuary Cave - Collection of images, videos and audio files
