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Solitary porphyr hills elevate upon the loess grounds and are well visible land marks. As such, they were used to build grave mounds upon. The hill combined with these mounds to huge mausoleums for the dead.
The Spitzberg got his name from that sharp tip the grave mound makes. Its remarkable Gestalt gave early reason for treaasure hunting and was examined archeologically 1939. Then, only the western part of the grave was dug open.
It was found, that this grave was built within the Baalberg culture. It carried an elderly man, buried with his head towards east. He was inside a stone chamber of 10m times 6m within a conical mound. Later on, up into the bronze ages, the mound was enlarged towards easter by further burials. Finally this mound reaches 30m times 21m at its foot.
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 | : | 5600 | | Town | : | 6188 Landsberg | | Administration | : | Saalkreis | | State | : | Sachsen-Anhalt | | Picture file name | : | imgq1104.jpg | | Picture date | : | 27.09.2007 16:32:00 |
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