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| Coordinates | 52 ° 51 '32.2 " N , 7 ° 45' 54.1" E | ||
| place | Lindern , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | 3500 to 2800 BC Chr. | ||
| Sprockhoff no. | 961 | ||
The Schlingsteine are a west-east oriented megalithic complex of the Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture (TBK) (originated between 3500 and 2800 BC) with the Sprockhoff no. 961 in Pastorenbusch northwest of Lindern in Lower Saxony .
description
The system consists of ten large and about as many smaller stones that protrude from the forest floor. At the east end of the row of large blocks measuring around 24 × 1.5 meters, which depict the chamber, there is still a yoke (pair of supporting stones with cap stones).
It is assumed that the chingstones were not set above the ground, but, like the gallery graves, into the ground. The narrow side stones of the border have been preserved. The five holes on the fifth capstone are drill holes for a blast attempt.
Finds
The recovered vessels are:
- a shoulder vessel with a handle, a conical neck, a sharp bend in the neck, a round shoulder and a slightly bulbous base; Decorated with circumferential horizontal and zigzag patterns on the neck as well as horizontal, vertical and zigzag rows on the shoulder. Height 15.7 centimeters.
- a steep-walled cup with a horizontal eyelet, decorated with rows of furrows under the rim and in the eyelet area. Height 11.3 centimeters.
- a bowl with a stand ring, decorated with continuous and interrupted horizontal rows of furrows under the edge, with vertical groups of lines and notches on the stand ring below. Height 8.4 centimeters.
- the base of a bowl with a stand ring decorated with vertical notches.
The stone box
A stone box was discovered near the Schlingsteine in 1962 . The approximately 4.0 × 1.2 meter large chamber was located in an approximately 45.0 × 25.0 × 3 meter high, oval hill. It has six bearing stones and two keystones, but no cap stones. The additions point to the late Neolithic (2000 BC). The system does not have a Sprockhoff number .
Large stone settlements were discovered in two large hills northwest of Lindern in 1957/58. In 1962 the hills were to be removed. When removing the second hill (45 × 25 × 3 m), the excavator encountered large stones. In the hill there was a large Neolithic stone grave consisting of eight mostly very flat granite boulders that had acted as bearing stones. Some of the slabs were so flat that the question arose whether they had been worked on before the construction of the large stone grave. The chamber had no stone paving. Since the bearing stones had very different heights, it was doubtful whether the large stone grave ever had cap stones. Since the dry stone work between the boulders was also incomplete, the question arose whether the large stone grave had remained unfinished. The finds consisted of an amber bead , fragments of three stone axes, arrowheads and deep-cut pottery, etc. a. from collar bottles and funnel cups . The chamber was originally surrounded by a stone wreath. At a distance of about 1 m around the chamber a layer of charcoal was found under which the sand had burned out. A ring of fire seems to have been lit several times around the chamber. HG Steffens dated the large stone grave to the end of the Middle Neolithic and saw in it a transition type from the classic large stone graves to the Bronze Age burial mounds. According to Mamoun Fansa , charcoal was extracted from outside the grave using the radiocarbon method to 2135 ± 90 BC. Dated.
See also
- Nordic megalithic architecture
- The Schlingsteine are on the street of the megalithic culture
literature
- Anette Bußmann : Stone Age witnesses. Journeys to the prehistory of northwest Germany Isensee, Oldenburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89995-619-1 , p. 78.
- Jörg Eckert: Large stone grave Schlingstones near Lindern. In: Frank Both (Red.): Archaeological Monuments between Weser and Ems (= Oldenburg Research. NF 13 = Archaeological Communications from Northwest Germany. Supplement. 34). Isensee, Oldenburg 2000, ISBN 3-89598-752-2 , pp. 227-228.
- Heinz Knöll : The north-west German deep engraving ceramics and their position in the north and central European Neolithic (= publications of the antiquity commission in the Provincial Institute for Westphalian Regional and Folklore. 3, ZDB -ID 565975-9 ). Aschendorff, Münster 1959.
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Edited from the estate by Gerhard Körner. Rudolf Habelt (on commission), Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , p. 140.
