Seedorf menhirs
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 35 '9.7 " N , 10 ° 54' 22.5" E | ||
| place | Seedorf , Duchy of Lauenburg District , Schleswig-Holstein , Germany | ||
The menhirs of Seedorf are two prehistoric menhirs near Seedorf in the Duchy of Lauenburg , Schleswig-Holstein . It is a grooved stone and another unworked stone.
location
The two stones are located about halfway between Seedorf and Zarrentin am Schaalsee on a hill in the "Tierpark" forest area near the banks of the Schaalsee . They are 13 m apart in an east-west direction. The site was probably an island or peninsula until the 1940s.
Research history
The Rillenstein was discovered in 1973 during forest work. It was overturned and about three-quarters covered with earth. He was later raised again. The neighboring monolith was first described as a possible menhir by Johannes Groht in 2013 . Groht could not make out any pit or other indications in its vicinity that would suggest that the stone had only recently been erected.
description
The Rillenstein
The stone is plate-shaped and oriented southwest-northeast. He is leaning against a tree root. The stone consists of reddish granite and has a height of 1.40 m, a width of 1.00 m and a thickness of 0.45 m. On the north-western broad side and the two narrow sides there is an artificial groove in the upper third with a width of 6 cm and a depth between 3.5 and 5 cm. Above the groove, the stone has a small bowl with a diameter of 6 cm and a depth of 3.5 cm.
According to Karl Wilhelm Struve , the stone could be an anthromorphic menhir. Johannes Groht lists three other menhirs in which a combination of groove and bowl occurs: the menhir from Bliedersdorf ( Lower Saxony ), the menhir from Dahlhausen ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) and the menhir from Trittenheim ( Rhineland-Palatinate ).
The monolith
The monolith has an oval cross-section and tapers towards the top. It is made of gray granite and is 0.76 m high, 0.8 m wide and 0.65 m thick.
literature
- Johannes Groht : Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , p. 465, 480.
- Detlef Schünemann : News from grooved and gutter stones. Attempt to form groups based on exact profile measurements. In: The customer. NF Volume 43, 1992, 67-97.
- Karl Wilhelm Struve : An anthropomorphic menhir from the community of Seedorf, district of the Duchy of Lauenburg. In: The home. Volume 81, Issue 4, 1974, pp. 93-100.
- Willi Wegewitz : Rillen- und Rinnensteine: Little-noticed monuments of the past. In: Archaeological correspondence sheet. Volume 13, 1983, p. 357.