Stone chest from Hagenah
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 29 ″ N , 9 ° 19 ′ 14 ″ E
The Bronze Age stone box of Hagenah is located in the local area of Hagenah , about 10 km west-southwest of Stade , on the road in Krügerfeld near the cemetery.
The popularly called "Easter Barg" hill that contained the stone box, belongs to a group of destroyed grave mounds on the ridge of . After the First World War , the Osterbarg was gradually shut down. A tree coffin stone packing about 2.5 m by 3.5 m in size was destroyed. At the end of 1930 a vertical stone slab was found that closed off the stone box .
The local curator was able to prevent further destruction and carry out an investigation. However, the box was not further exposed in order to preserve the monument in situ .
The box, three-quarters full of sand, contained the remains of bones that lay on the pavement, a hatchet , a fragment of a dagger and a fibula , all made of bronze. The bronze finds enabled relative dating. The ax is a so-called “Nordic heel”. The bead under the heel is decorated with a line pattern. According to Oscar Montelius, this ax type is to be placed in period II (1,500–1,250 BC). The fibula and the dagger also belong to the Older Bronze Age . The two-part brooch has spirals at the head and end of the bow. The bracket is decorated with circumferential spiral lines. Most of the blade, the grip plate with a tang and two rivets have been preserved from the dagger . Later the stone box must have been opened again for a cremation.
The attempt to keep the stone box in situ had to be abandoned in the early 1960s. The box was completely exposed in 1964. The long sides are limited by two narrow stones. The western narrow side is formed by a larger and a smaller one, the eastern by a single end stone. Most of the box is covered by a large capstone. A smaller one lies over the entrance side. The gap remaining between the capstones had been closed by smaller stones. During the delivery of the gaps between the bearing stones and cap stones, even the smallest gaps were filled with stones. All bearing stones have been wedged. The wedge stones sit up to 60 cm in the natural soil. The monument is now under tall trees in a place that can be seen from afar. The group of trees with the monument is fenced in.
See also
literature
- Jürgen Deichmüller : A stone box from the older Bronze Age near Hagenah, Kr. Stade. In: News from Lower Saxony's prehistory . Vol. 34, 1965, pp. 83-85.
Footnotes
- ↑ Jürgen Deichmüller: The stone box from Hagenah . In: Herbert Aust (Ed.): The Elb-Weser Triangle: Stade, Zeven, Bremervörde, Buxtehude. Research problems excursions (= guides to prehistoric and protohistoric monuments . Volume 30 ). P. von Zabern, Mainz 1976, ISBN 3-8053-0145-6 , p. 88 ff. (Here: 91) ( limited preview in the Google book search).
