House of the Dead of Hermannsburg
The house of the dead of Hermannsburg , (also called the house of the dead of Baven ), is located in a district of Südheide in the district of Celle in Lower Saxony . It was excavated in 1932 by Hans Piesker, an archaeologist from Hermannsburg. It was in a large burial mound that had been damaged by sand mining in the Bonstorfer Heide . The diameter of the hill was still about 20 m, the height 1.5 m.
The remains of an east-west oriented house were found under a thick layer of fire in the north-west of the hill. Due to the discoloration in the mound made of floating sand , the post pits were used to reconstruct a size of 6.5 × 4.5 m. A wicker wall separated the large room from an open anteroom. The building had been deliberately burned down in connection with a burial in the building, which had been covered with a thick layer of clay before being burned.
The grave contained a short sword of the Wohlde type , a dagger similar to the Sögel type, a needle with a thickened and perforated neck and a conical head, all parts made of bronze. 17 heart-shaped arrowheads , two blowstones and a spearhead were found on the flint tools . A charred wooden mug was also found. The additions date the remains of the house to the middle of the Bronze Age . The traces found indicate that predominantly women were buried in them.
The occurrence of such houses of the dead, unlike that of the older Neolithic burial huts , is distributed over the entire older Bronze Age, although they are rare in northern Germany. Its main distribution area is on both sides of the Lower Elbe and extends into the Lüneburg Heath . In the district of Celle , in addition to the Bavener house, some were found in Westercelle , Hetendorf and Bleckmar . A similar finding is available at the "Tesperhude House of the Dead" near Geesthacht .
See also
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Häßler (Ed.): Prehistory and early history in Lower Saxony. Theiss, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-8062-0495-0 , pp. 443-444.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 51 ′ 20 ″ N , 10 ° 3 ′ 24.1 ″ E