Rillenstein near Spreckel
The Rillenstein near Spreckel is located in arable land, about 500 m southeast of the town, 250 m south of the road under a high-voltage line in Wetschen in the Diepholz district in Lower Saxony .
The stone lies on the edge of a large oval hill about 1.7 m high and 45 m in diameter. After Jürgen Müller dike is probably a prehistoric hill middle stone age settlement horizon. On the top of the large round boulder there is a 13 cm deep groove about 30 cm long.
Similar grooved stones have become known in large numbers without the archaeological clarification of the meaning of the stones in each case. For some, however, a cultic meaning can be considered certain ( sacrificial stone from Melzingen). Detlef Schünemann counts the Rillenstein at Spreckel among those who have reservations about the “age of the gutter”.
See also
literature
- Detlef Schünemann : News from grooved and gutter stones. Attempt to form groups using exact profile measurements . In: Die Kunde NF 43, 1992, pp. 67-97.
- Willi Wegewitz : Rillen- und Rinnensteine: Little-noticed monuments of the past. In: Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 13 pp. 355–358.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Detlef Schünemann: News from grooved and gutter stones. Attempt to form groups using exact profile measurements . In: Die Kunde NF 43, 1992, p. 86
Coordinates: 52 ° 37 ′ 38.5 " N , 8 ° 26 ′ 36.8" E