Menhir of Dauborn
| Menhir of Dauborn | |||
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 19 '4 " N , 8 ° 10' 23.7" E | ||
| place | Hünstelden , OT Dauborn , Hesse , Germany | ||
| Emergence | Neolithic ? | ||
The menhir of Dauborn is a prehistoric menhir near Dauborn , a district of Hünstelden in the Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse . The buried stone was discovered in 1963 and erected again in 1976 near where it was found.
location
The stone was discovered while plowing south of Dauborn on the "Grauer Stein" parcel . Its current location is 750 m from here, about halfway between Dauborn and Kirberg in a small wooded area between the Leidenberg and the Hainbach on a nature trail . The Kirberg menhir is 1.1 km to the southwest .
description
The menhir is made Taunus - quartzite , which does not occur in the vicinity; possibly the material comes from the Mensfeld head . It is angular, stocky, has two long sides that are almost parallel to each other and tapers towards the top. The stone has a total height of about 140 cm and protrudes 100 cm from the earth. Its width is 80 cm and its thickness 50 cm.
Numerous Neolithic ceramic shards of the linear ceramics , the Rössen culture and the Michelsberg culture were discovered only 100 m west of the site where it was found.
literature
- Dietmar Elsner: Chronicle of finds for the years 1975–1980. In: Find reports from Hessen. Volume 21, 1981, p. 74.
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 139, 149.
- Fritz-Rudolf Herrmann , Albrecht Jockenhövel : The prehistory of Hesse . Theiss, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0458-6 , pp. 414-415.
Web links
- The Megalithic Portal: Dauborn Hinkelstein