Sarmenstorf necropolis
The Sarmenstorf necropolis is located in Zigiholz near Sarmenstorf in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland . The cultural property of national importance consists of 21 burial mounds and contained finds from around 2200 and 1400 BC. Several of the burial mounds were excavated in 1926/27. The graves of Sarmenstorf, including the unique crescent moon grave, have been reconstructed and preserved. It also found Bronze Age burials (around 1400 v. Chr.) And fragments of pottery, Corded Ware and urns in the hills.
The dead were burned on pyre , the bones were picked and deposited in the fire rubble or next to it. In grave mound 2, a 5 × 3.3 m grave chamber made of posts was built above the cremation site. In burial mound 6, next to the burial covered by a stone packing, there were two fireplaces. They probably had a meaning in the funeral rite, as they were surrounded by a loose oval stone setting. Over the burials, mounds of earth with a stone core or a stone mantle (hill cover) were piled up. Only a few pieces of string ceramic have been preserved.
In the Schöfflisdorf necropolis , the gifts were richer. Here they found flint tools , vessels, spindle whorls and stone axes. Cremations were found in all the hills, most of which were buried at the cremation site and covered with stone packing. The hills were mostly given a stone coat.
literature
- Baur, P. Martin: History of Sarmenstorf . Publishing house Benziger & Co. Einsiedeln 1942
- W. Schlosser: The crescent moon grave in Zigiholz . Lenzburger Yearbooks 2005, pp. 55–86.
Web links
- Brief description and pictures ( Memento from January 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
Individual evidence
- ↑ The term «necropolis» is used here because it was introduced for the square. According to current records, it is a grave or burial mound field
Coordinates: 47 ° 18 '36.5 " N , 8 ° 15' 51.1" E ; CH1903: six hundred sixty-two thousand four hundred and twenty-six / 240247