Martin's cave
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| Location: | Iserlohn - Oestrich , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany | |
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51 ° 21 '51.6 " N , 7 ° 38' 6.6" E | |
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| Type: | Culture cave | |
| Overall length: | about 48 meters | |
The Martinshöhle was a cave in Iserlohn - Oestrich . It was located in the mass limestone of the upper Middle Devon .
The cave was on the eastern slope of the castle hill in the Schledde . It was about 48 meters long, the entrance was nine meters wide and six meters high.
In 1875, the Bonn anatomist Hermann Schaaffhausen found countless stone tools in the cave. Fund horizons from the Middle Paleolithic could be discovered. Further investigations were carried out by Johann Carl Fuhlrott , Johann Jacob Nöggerath , Ernst Heinrich von Dechen and Emil Carthaus . Professor Julius Andree reported about devices from the Paleolithic that were found in the cave. Among other things, it was a fragment of a bone harpoon, small graver, knife, bone prick and stone prick.
A few years after the discoveries, this cave fell victim to limestone mining.
See also: List of caves in the Sauerland
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 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, pp. 28/29.
- ↑ Historical Center Hagen: Research into the leaf cave, section Find Landscape