Bowl with a perforated rim

The bowl with a perforated rim (double) is a prehistoric burial accessory in Central Europe that appeared in the Late Bronze Age, but above all in the early Iron Age .

From the beginning of the Younger Bronze Age it became customary to cover the urn with an upturned bowl. The vessels were sometimes equipped with small handles or with a hanging device in the form of a double edge perforation (for a cord). The habit of piercing the edge of the bowl before a fire was practiced regionally throughout the millennium before the turn of the century.

The Neo-Bronze Age inclined bowl with a perforated wall focuses on the urn field culture in the Neuwied Basin and north of the Lower Main. Further regional occurrences are known in central Germany. In north-west Germany including Westphalia, only the perforated bowl from Ense-Bremen proves the influence of the urn field culture and represents the first takeover of a hanging device, which became more common in the following years, this shows the spread of the early Iron Age bowls with a perforated rim.

While Central Germany almost and the Neuwied Basin now appear completely empty, the evidence is piling up on the Lower Rhine and in the Allermündungsgebiet . In Westphalia finds from Herne , Telgte and Rahden -Tonnenheide are known. Maps of younger, perforated bowls emphasize the Aller-Weser area and show the extension of the suspension device as far as the Lower Elbe.

literature

• Kurt Tackenberg: Urns with "soul holes" and other Central German / Central European peculiarities in Northern Germany during the Younger Bronze and Early Iron Ages . Lax, Hildesheim 1976. ISBN 3784812236