Sunstone from Harpstedt
The Harpstedt sun stone is a diamond-shaped slab made of red granite measuring about 0.8 by 0.8 m , which is set up in front of the Amtshof in Harpstedt , a municipality in the Oldenburg district in Lower Saxony . Twelve concentric circles with a largest diameter of 67 cm around a central dimple are worked into the flat front of the sunstone .
The stone was found on Harpstedter Galgenberg in the 1920s. It was first set up at the rifle house and only aroused the interest of research in 1955 when a similar stone was set up in the neighboring community of Beckstedt. Because of the regular circles and the largely unknown find circumstances, the classification of the Harpstedt sunstone as a prehistoric or early historical object is controversial. When it was found, it was assumed that it was a medieval shooting target .
There are similar representations on Bronze Age finds and rock carvings in southern Scandinavia . On the British Isles you come across this motif in rock carvings ( cup-and-ring markings ) and in megalithic systems .
See also
literature
- Johannes Groht: Menhirs in Germany. State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943904-18-5 , p. 229.
- HA Lauer: In: State Museum for Natural History and Prehistory (Hrsg.): Archaeological Monuments between Weser and Ems , Oldenburg Research New Series Volume 13, Isensee Oldenburg 2000, p. 338
- Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments Volume 2, Bremen, Verden, Hoya and Mainz 1965, p. 82 ff.
- Ernst Andreas Friedrich : The sun stones from Beckstedt, Harpstedt and Horsten , pp. 19-21, in: If stones could talk , Volume III, Landbuch-Verlag, Hanover 1995, ISBN 3-7842-0515-1 .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ N , 8 ° 34 ′ 35.7 ″ E