Stone chest in the field marrow Rade
| Stone chest in the field marrow Rade Stone box | |||
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 Steinkiste and the surrounding area (September 2016) |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 22 '45.9 " N , 9 ° 48' 56.9" E | ||
| place | Rade (Neu Wulmstorf) , Lower Saxony , Germany | ||
| Emergence | most recent section of the Neolithic | ||
| Dimensions | 2.8 m × 1.5 m | ||
The stone box in the Feldmark Rade (in the district of Harburg in Lower Saxony ) belongs to a rather rare form of large stone graves . It can best be compared with the stone box from Fehrenbruch .
In 1949 W. Rüland found a stone setting in the southeast corner of the "Grauener Bauernholz" near Rade , which suggested a stone box sunk into the ground . When covering the thin humus layer, a pebble pack six meters in diameter was found, which formed the shell for the stone box.
It was maintained in 2014 by the working group for practical archeology in the Harburg district.
description
The box was sunk into the natural ground and had a length of 2.8 m, an average width of 1.5 m and a height of 0.8 m. As with other megalithic structures , there were originally three supporting stones with the straight surface facing inwards (one missing) on the long sides . The gaps were narrow or filled with intermediate masonry. The strong internal inclination of the bearing stones was strange. Since they were all inclined at the same angle, it can be assumed that this was done in order to be able to use shorter capstones. The box had lost all of its capstones. The southeast narrow side was formed by two narrow stones. One reached only half the height of the adjacent bearing stone. One could think of an entrance, as can be seen at the dolmen . The north-western narrow side had no wall stone, but was closed by a rubble packing, on which no signs of disturbance were observed. A similar observation was made with the stone box from Deinste in the Stade district , in which a wall stone was also replaced by rolling stones.
- Stone chest in the field marrow Rade
Earth fill and finds
Except for a minor disturbance, the contents of the box were intact. It was filled with loamy sand from the area up to the level of the natural ground. Up to a depth of 10 cm below the surface, the filler soil, which was hard in places like a tamped threshing floor, was uniform. Beneath it was light brown sand with light and dark spots. It contained many broken pieces of flint , a number of which were burned. Burned flint lay particularly between the paving of flat, fire-split and unworked field stones. In some places the fired flint lay in heaps. Pieces of charcoal and 30 small pieces of corpse burn were found in the soil. The burned bones were so scattered that one did not get the impression of a closed burial. Furthermore, seven small vessel fragments were found in the filling soil. The corpse burn was only observed in the middle layer.
In the northwest was a large tubular amber bead with longitudinal and transverse perforations. Underneath, an upside-down small clay bowl, broken in two, was exposed. In addition to the large one, four tubular or disc-shaped amber beads were found. A small flint ax lay a few inches above the pavement. A flint blade with a retouched leading edge lay a little higher.
It cannot be said whether the clay bowl, the flint ax, the flint knife and the amber beads belong to a single grave decoration. The nature of the filling soil suggests that the chamber was not filled in one go. The corpse fire strewn in the middle layer appears to have entered the chamber as a subsequent burial and should not be connected with the grave goods. The small amount of corpse burn does not have to speak against a burial, since the corpse burn can be dissolved in a loose scatter of plant roots.
Time position
This form of stone boxes is at the end of the development series. The additions, especially the tubular amber beads, speak for a burial of the individual grave culture. In terms of time, these finds are likely to belong to the most recent period of the Neolithic Age - the end of the Neolithic - which corresponds to the first stage of the Central European Bronze Age.
After the investigation, the excavated wall stone was put back into the gap on the southwest long side and the box was filled with earth so that the pavement was protected from damage.
See also
literature
- Ernst Sprockhoff : Atlas of the megalithic tombs of Germany. Part 3: Lower Saxony - Westphalia. Edited from the estate by Gerhard Körner. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 1975, ISBN 3-7749-1326-9 , p. 30.
- Willi Wegewitz : A stone box in the Rade field in the Harburg district. In: The customer . NF Vol. 2, No. 4, 1951, pp. 41-46, ( digitized version ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Willi Wegewitz: A stone box in the Rade field in the Harburg district. In: The customer. NF Vol. 2, No. 4, 1951, pp. 41-46, ( digitized version ).
- ^ Archaeological Museum Hamburg, The Working Group on Practical Archeology. In: amh.de. Retrieved January 18, 2016 .
- ^ Stone box rediscovered in Rade - Harburg - elbe-wochenblatt.de. (No longer available online.) In: elbe-wochenblatt.de. Archived from the original on January 18, 2016 ; accessed on January 18, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Willi Wegewitz: The graves of the Stone Age and Bronze Age in the Lower Elbe area (the districts of Stade and Harburg) (= publications of the prehistoric collections of the State Museum in Hanover. 11, ISSN 0931-6280 ). Lax, Hildesheim 1949, Fig. 31.
