Cup stone from Wiershausen

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Shell stone near Wiershausen under an oak

The shell stone of Wiershausen is a prehistoric shell stone in Wiershausen , a district of the city of Hann. Münden in Lower Saxony .

description

Small bowls, partly filled with rainwater

The irregularly shaped quartzite block has the dimensions 2.8 × 2.2 m. On its surface there are 55 recessed, oval bowls. Furthermore, a bronze seal pin , a bronze dagger, as well as remains of the handle made of horn and the sheath of the dagger made of alder wood were discovered. This suggests that the finds were additions to a Bronze Age burial that was made directly on the bowl stone. Investigations of the ground showed that it was intensively enriched with corpse wax , so the man was buried on the bowl stone and covered with a burial mound, which is rather unusual and should have a direct equivalent only when the bowl stone was found in the large stone grave of Bunsoh .

Location

After its excavation, the stone was moved to a prehistoric burial mound on the edge of the forest. Its original location was a piece (“400 steps”) south of its current location in the middle of a field below the surface of the arable land, where it was excavated in 1952. In the following years the remains of the hill were examined and a second hill was identified. A report dating back to 1878 attests to 10 more barrows in the area of ​​the site, which were sometimes even in the forest or on pasture land and were all surrounded by stone wreaths. Most of them were paved over and leveled after the fields were linked at the end of the 19th century; the last one remained at the edge of the forest.

According to the teacher and home nurse Fritz Bertram Jünemann (1954), this is the southernmost occurrence of religiously revered stones in Lower Saxony. The altar stones at Dransfeld are located nearby .

literature

  • City of Hann. Münden. (Ed.): Times are changing, archeology in Hann. Münden.
  • Ernst Andreas Friedrich : The altar stone on the Hengelsberg. P. 19–21, in: If stones could talk. Volume I, Landbuch-Verlag, Hannover 1989, ISBN 3-7842-0397-3 .

Web links

Commons : Schalenstein von Wiershausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ^ Schalenstein (Näpfchenstein), Wiershausen near Hannoversch-Münden
  2. ^ Olaf Höckmann: Shell stone and barrows of Wiershausen . In: Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (Hrsg.): Göttingen and the Göttingen Basin (=  guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments. ). tape 16 . von Zabern, Mainz 1970, ISBN 3-8053-0131-6 , p. 153 f .
  3. ^ Fritz Bertram Jünemann: The bowl stone from Wiershausen. In: Werraland, Heft 3, 6th year 1954, pp. 35–36.
  4. ↑ Sven Gerth et al. a .: Atonement crosses

Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 59.5 ″  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 44 ″  E