Hornburg stone packing grave

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The stone packing grave of Hornburg was an end-Neolithic stone packing grave near Hornburg , a district of the Seegebiet Mansfelder Land community in the Mansfeld-Südharz district in Saxony-Anhalt . It was archaeologically examined by Paul Grimm in 1937 . The finds made are now in the depot of the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt in Halle (Saale) .

location

The grave was located northeast of Hornburg on the parcel "Kleines Feld", on the eastern edge of the Silberhügel.

description

At the time of the investigation, the upper part of the grave had already been plowed. The grave was oriented north-south and had a length of 1.2 m. The tomb architecture included a decorated slab of roe stone with a length of 1.36 m, a width of 0.53 m and a thickness of 0.1 m. Its exact position in the grave is unclear; it was probably on one of the long sides. According to Hans-Jürgen Beier , it could be a secondary menhir . The plate has three different types of decorations:

  1. fine, mostly geometric incised patterns
  2. Pointed objects
  3. deeply incised cutting lines

Under the fine incised patterns, ladder strips, line-filled triangles and comb-like characters can be made out. They represent the oldest decorations, as they are covered by the deep cutting lines. The pointed objects could be depictions of daggers . Most of the representations are on one side of the plate. There are also incisions on the back and on one side, but no clear patterns can be seen here.

The dead man's skeleton was buried in a crouched position. The only burial object found was a conical bowl with remains of handle knobs. Based on this find, Paul Grimm assigned the grave to the most recent phase of the end-Neolithic Corded Ceramic Culture (2800–2200 BC). Similar vessels are also known from the early phase of the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture (2300–1550 BC). The grave can probably be dated to the transition period from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age .

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Beier : The megalithic, submegalithic and pseudomegalithic buildings as well as the menhirs between the Baltic Sea and the Thuringian Forest. Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe 1. Wilkau-Haßlau 1991, p. 68.
  • Paul Grimm : A new plate from the End Stone Age near Hornburg, Mansfelder Seekreis. In: Mannus. Volume 29, 1937, pp. 427ff.
  • Waldtraut Schrickel : Western European elements in the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age of Central Germany. Part I. Catalog. Publications of the State Museum for Prehistory Dresden, Volume 5, VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1957, pp. 82–83.