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Grave mounds at the Wilsede Hill
Grave mounds at the Wilsede Hill

Three really large mounds lie on the slope of the Wilsede Hill. The heathland creates them an impressive picture. Another mound is further up the hill in the forest.

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:>3200
Town:29646 Oberhaverbeck
Administration:Heidekreis
State:Niedersachsen
Picture file name:imgp2852.jpg
Picture date:19.05.2003 15:05:00

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