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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Grabhügelfeld HardtCountry: Germany
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Land: North Rhine-Westphalia Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Mönchengladbach
Latitude: 51.186337N Longitude: 6.336687E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Janek visited on 8th Nov 2021 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4
The round barrows measure between 4 m and 30 m and are ca. 1 m high today. The long barrows are between 17 m and ca. 100 m long.
Some of the grave goods and urns are displayed in the Schloss Rheydt museum.
Literature:
[01] Schnettler, I.: Betten für Riesen im Hardter Wald?. RP Online GmbH. 28. Mai 2008.
[02] Körner,M.: Über die Hardt. 25 Jahre Heimat- und Bürgerverein Hardt. Hrsg.: Heimat- und Bürgerverein Mönchengladbach-Hardt. artkonzeptkörner ug, Wegberg 2006.
[03] Heinen, H., Schol, W.: Loca Desiderata, Mönchengladbacher Stadtgeschichte. Hrsg.: Wolfgang Löhr mit Unterstützung der Sparkassenstiftung für Kunst und Wissenschaft, der Reiners-Stiftung GmbH und der Josef und Hilde Wilberz-Stiftung. Band 1. Rheinland-Verlag- und Betriebsgesellschaft des Landschaftsverbandes Rheinland, Abtei Brauweiler, Pulheim 1994.
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