Stone chest from Holsthum
The Holsthum stone box is located southwest of the village of Holsthum in the Eifel district of Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate .
On the northern slope of the Ferschweiler plateau there are two Gallo-Roman grave groups from the 2nd century AD. The five or eight ash boxes are partly made from the surrounding sandstone. The stone box is isolated on the edge of the mountain slope.
The stone box measures 2.0 × 1.2 m. The long east wall is made up of the adjacent sandstone , the other three walls consist of sandstone slabs up to 20 cm thick. In the front panel, of which only the lower part has been preserved, there is half of an approximately 70 cm hole in the soul .
An antechamber was attached to the box, which is hardly preserved today. Originally, the grave was covered with slabs, so that a closed room was created in which the deceased were deposited with gifts. In addition to human bones, shards of vessels called barbed wire beakers could be recovered in the box. Based on the finds, the use of the tomb in the Neolithic Age , between 2800 and 2000 BC. BC, to be dated. The stone box was used for many generations, with the soul hole serving as access. The grave is the only known Stone Age grave complex of this form in the region.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 52 '59.1 " N , 6 ° 23' 50.8" E