Menhir of Lettin
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 31 '10.9 " N , 11 ° 54' 42.2" E | ||
| place | Halle (Saale) , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany | ||
The menhir of Lettin is a prehistoric menhir near Lettin , a district of Halle (Saale) , Saxony-Anhalt .
location
According to the monument register of the state of Saxony-Anhalt from 2016, the stone is located between Lettin and Heide-Nord / Blumenau between Gartenstrasse and Saalering.
description
During Waldtraut Schrickel's investigation around 1957, the menhir was completely covered by a pile of stones and it still seems to be in this condition today. According to the files of the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, it consists of very hard rock and is 1.2 m high, 0.4 m wide and 0.3 m thick.
Finds from the area around the menhir come from the Baalberg culture , the Walternienburg culture , the Bernburg culture , the Full Bronze Age , the Iron Age , the Slavic early Middle Ages and the Middle Ages .
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings as well as the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest. Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe 1. Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 65.
- Horst Kirchner : The menhirs in Central Europe and the menhir thought (= Academy of Sciences and Literature. Treatises of the humanities and social sciences class. Born 1955, No. 9). Wiesbaden 1955, p. 173.
- 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, p. 40.