Menhir of notification
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 44 '22.2 " N , 6 ° 52' 4.1" E | ||
| place | Notification (Hunsrück) , Trier-Saarburg district , Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany | ||
The menhir from Bescheid is a menhir used as a grave stele near Bescheid (Hunsrück) in the district of Trier-Saarburg in Rhineland-Palatinate .
Location and description
The menhir is located southwest of Bescheid and east of Lorscheid on the edge of a forest area on the southern slope of a flat hill. There it marks the border between the two places. A Celtic ornate grave necropolis from the 5th to 4th century BC is only 250 m to the east. When this was excavated between 1977 and 1979, the menhir was also examined. It was found that a 70 cm deep hole had been dug for its installation and that it had been fixed in it with a few smaller stones. Some charcoal was also found in the pit, which could be dated to the 17th century. The stone was only erected at this time as a boundary stone and previously served as a stele for a neighboring burial mound . 1.3 km to the north there was originally a very similar menhir (the long stone of Bescheid ) on the border between Bescheid, Mehring and Naurath . In 2006 it was erroneously removed and has not yet been put back up. Instead, there is now a larger stone that is not the original.
The menhir is made of Devonian slate . It has a height of 230 cm (155 cm above ground), a width of 52 cm and a depth of 25 cm. It is plate-shaped, slightly inclined, tapers upwards and ends in a drawn-in tip.
literature
- Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 324-325.
- Alfred Haffner: Menhir, grave stele or boundary stone? On a dated »menhir« from Bescheid / Lorscheid, Trier-Saarbuch district. In: Finds and excavations in the Trier district. From the work of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier. Volume 39, 2007, pp. 15-20.
Web links
- Grave stele notification
- Entry on Menhir Stein von Bescheid - old location (Neu-Mehring, municipality of Mehring) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
- Entry on Menhir Stein von Bescheid - New location (Neu-Mehring, municipality of Mehring) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
Individual evidence
- ^ Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. Pp. 324-325.