Rectangular dolmen from Hüsby
The rectangular dolmen by Hüsby (also called by Schuby-Kroy) with a half-height entry stone was examined by G. Schäfer in 1966 in connection with a kink clearing as part of the land consolidation . It was discovered and excavated about a kilometer west of its current location. It comes from the Neolithic and is a system of the funnel beaker culture (TBK - 3500–2800 BC). Hüsby is located west of Schleswig in Schleswig-Holstein . The reconstructed dolmen is now just before the northern entrance to Hüsby, between Klein- Dannewerk and Schuby , on the right of the road.
The hill
The round hill was 40 m in diameter and three meters high and had at least eight construction phases. In the edge area were three stone wreaths and a circular moat. The hill was made in places gelbscheckigem, sandy- humus rich heaped material of brownish and gray color. Soden could be seen in some places . In the center was the core mound with a diameter of 5.5 m. Its mound reached up to the top of the bearing stone. A stone wreath made of stones the size of a head or a double head was preserved at the foot of the hill, presumably from an earlier time.
The chamber
The west-east facing chamber of the rectangular pole has internal dimensions of 2.1 × 0.8 m and a height of 0.9 m. The bearing stones were wedged in the standing pits with rolling stones . The five only slightly recessed and inwardly inclined bearing stones (two on each long side) carried two cap stones, one of which is missing. In the east is the half-height entry stone. In a younger stone packing, about 1.5 m to the east, there was a stone slab that presumably closed the entrance opening. The western capstone of the dolmen is a granite block (1.5 × 1.2 × 0.6 m), the upper and western end of which is covered with a total of 112 bowls . The second, smaller capstone is missing. The supporting stones of the dolmen were covered on the outside with a pack of clay and rolling stones. The gaps between the supporting stones were filled with layered stone slabs. The floor has a carefully laid pavement made of fist- to double-fist-sized pebbles, which lie under a pile of burnt flint .
- Rectangular dolmen from Hüsby
Finds
The floor of the chamber was filled with a yellowish-brown, fine sandy floor. Ceramics stood on the flint embankment: a funnel cup stood in front of the north side . Immediately in front of the keystone, a funnel beaker and the shards of a heavily crushed beaker and a wide-mouthed bowl were found. Next to the bowl was a broken baking plate .
The capstone of the dolmen was partially covered by the stone packing of an early Bronze Age tree coffin burial . This means that the bowls must be older than this burial. Nine reburials had taken place in the mound :
- three earth graves sunk into the surrounding ground, probably from the late Neolithic
- four Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age tree coffin burials with stone packings
- two cremation burials, probably from the Middle Bronze Age .
See also
literature
- Hans Hingst: Results of the investigation of prehistoric burial mounds in Schleswig-Holstein . In: Die Heimat 77, 1970, pp. 162–163.
Web links
- The Hüsby Dolmen on Grosssteingraeber.de
Coordinates: 54 ° 30 ′ 4.5 " N , 9 ° 29 ′ 13.3" E