Bike trailer
Bicycle trailers are classified according to the spoke scheme (A – H) developed by Friedrich Holste (1908–1942) and the types named by Georg Kossack (1923–2004). They are a long-lasting form of jewelry made in the bronze casting process of the tumulus and urn field culture in the Middle Bronze Age .
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The specimens, cast in stone molds with one or two shells, are available, like the wheel needles , in four, six, eight or twelve-spoke variants (also as double wheel trailers) with and without eyelets . They were found mainly in France and northern Switzerland , but also in the Balkans and the Swabian Alb , in graves , depots and settlements . As far as can be deduced from the finds in the body graves, bike trailers were carried on the arms, on the chest and on the pelvis.
The simple, four-part symbol appears as a wheel cross as a rock carving (e.g. on Bornholm ), or more complex, e.g. B. as a coat of arms .
literature
- Georg Kossack: Studies on the symbols of the Urnfield Period and Hallstatt Period in Central Europe in 1954
- Ulrike Wels-Weyrauch: The pendants and neck rings in southwest Germany and northern Bavaria . Prehistoric bronze finds 11, 1; Munich 1978