Radbodsberg

The Radbodsberg (also: Rabbelsberg) in the district Brill, community dunams ( Ostfriesland ), is a grave mound , where the popular tradition of the Fries King Radbod to be buried.

The oval hill has a considerable height of 2.6 m with a length of 29 m and a width of 24 m. Between 1898 and 1904 the Radbodsberg was the subject of two archaeological excavations, which, among other things , revealed a Neolithic body grave, six urn and ten cremation graves from the Bronze and Iron Ages, and a medieval horse grave . Several boulder blocks could belong to a (Bronze Age) stone box .

The excavation finds are now part of the collection of the Society for Fine Arts and Patriotic Antiquities in Emden .

literature

• Ernst Andreas Friedrich : The Rabbelsberg near Dunum , pp. 24-25, in: If stones could talk , Volume II, Landbuch-Verlag, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7842-0479-1 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 19.1 ″  N , 7 ° 38 ′ 37.1 ″  E