Menhir from Dingelstedt
| Menhir from Dingelstedt Sunstones | |||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 53 '47.1 " N , 11 ° 2' 53.2" E | ||
| place | Huy , OT Dingelstedt am Huy , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany | ||
The menhir from Dingelstedt is a decorated menhir from Dingelstedt am Huy , a district of Huy in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt . It is now in the City Museum in Halberstadt .
Location and description
The menhir was discovered in 1925. It was used with the decorated side down as a cover plate of an early Bronze Age stone box grave . It was first taken to the museum in Oschersleben and later to Halberstadt.
The menhir consists of red sandstone and is almost rectangular. Except for one narrow side, all sides are processed. Its height is 155 cm, the width 100 cm and the depth 20 cm. There are engraved or tapped representations on one broad side. A circle is shown at the top right, below is a sloping, shafted ax. The center of the stone takes up a slightly arched series of lines that are interrupted in the middle by an oval object. This representation is interpreted as a belt with a buckle. The entire picture apparently shows a highly stylized deity or human.
literature
- Paul Grimm : Of upright stones (menhirs) in Central Germany. In: Mitteldeutsche Volkheit. Volume 3, Issue 4, 1936, p. 68.
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , pp. 435, 449–450.
- Waldemar Matthias : New ceramic cord finds and a menhir statue from the Schafstädt district, Merseburg district. In: Annual publication for Central German prehistory. Volume 48, 1964, pp. 98ff.
- Detlef W. Müller : The decorated menhir steles and a plate menhir from Central Germany. In: Stefania Casini, Raffaele C. De Marinis, Annaluisa Pedrotti (eds.): Statue-stele e massi incisi nell'Europa dell'età del rame (= Notes archaeologiche Bergomensi. Volume 3). Bergamo 1995, pp. 295-303.
- Heinz Nowak: From the "Long Stone" near Seehausen. In: Börde, Bode, Lappwald. Oschersleben 2007, pp. 43–44, 47–48.
- Waldtraut Schrickel : Western European elements in the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age of Central Germany. Part I. Catalog. Publications of the State Museum for Prehistory Dresden, Volume 5, VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1957, pp. 76–78.
- Ralf Schwarz : Menhirs and decorated stone chamber tombs. In: Harald Meller (ed.): Early and Middle Neolithic (= catalogs for the permanent exhibition in the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle. Volume 2). State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology, Halle (Saale) 2013.