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This grave from bronze age is flat, not mounded as in original. It was reconstructed 1970, and is in good shape.
The stone oval measures 4,5 m times 3 m, and was packed up to 60 cm with erratic rocks. It contained an east-west oriented grave tray of 2m times 5 cm with 50 cm in depth. It was framed with a ring of stones of 10 m diameter, wich might be the rest of a covering stone layer for the whole grave mound.
Not reconstructed was a trench with sloping walls of 1,5 m width and 50 cm depth.
Large burial mounds were in use from 1500 B.C. until 500 A.C. In the large mounds the dead were buried within trunk coffin. There is an exceptional cluster in Wilsede. Such habit changed in the younger bronze age when the dead were burnt and the ash was buried in small mounds. Often such mounds were set near stone age mounds, which may have not been eroded at that time, and those places were respected by the successing indo-european immigrants. In many mounds, burial objects were found such as dishes, weapons and attire. Real prehistoric mounds are dented at the top - tomb riders usually do not repair the outlines of the mounds.
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| Age | : | 3700 | | Town | : | 49525 Wechte/Tecklenburg | | Administration | : | Steinfurt | | State | : | Nordrhein-Westfalen | | Picture file name | : | imgq0154.jpg | | Picture date | : | 14.09.2006 10:00:00 |
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