Stone box from the Rugenbarg

Stone box from the Rugenbarg

The stone box from the Rugenbarg in Vaale near Itzehoe in Schleswig-Holstein is one of the larger stone boxes in Germany. The Rugenbarg houses ten Bronze Age burial mounds, which otherwise house the contemporary tree coffin burials under mounds of earth.

The finds from the stone box were used in the coat of arms

The box, about three meters long and one meter wide, was unscientificly excavated in 1884. It consists of nine bearing stones and four cap stones. In the box were the remains of a tree coffin that contained male skeletal remains and grave goods . The accessories consisted of a heel ax, fittings for a folding chair , a dagger , two fibulas , a sword with a wooden scabbard and a clay pot.

See also

• Nordic megalithic architecture
• List of stone boxes

Web links

Commons : Vaale, Rugenbarg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

• Karl Weinhold : The pagan funeral burial in Germany. In: Session reports of the Philosophical-Historical Class of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Vol. 29, 1858, ISSN  1012-487X , pp. 117-204 ; Vol. 30, 1859, pp. 171-226 .

Coordinates: 54 ° 0 ′ 37.7 ″  N , 9 ° 23 ′ 27 ″  E