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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Grabhügelgruppe ChorbuschCountry: Germany
NOTE: This site is 5.642 km away from the location you searched for.
Land: North Rhine-Westphalia Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Cologne
Latitude: 51.051754N Longitude: 6.791670E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
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| 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 |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
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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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The Grabhügelgruppe Chorbusch is a barrow cemetery in Cologne (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany).
The cemetery dates from the Bronze Age (ca. 1000 BC). The best preserved round barrow is still 10 m broad and 1.5 m high. Several urns and vessels were found during an excavation in 1926.
Literature:
[01] Jansen, H.: Mit dem Rad zum Hügelgrab im Chorbusch [Webpage] (2012).
[02] Kriesinger, H.: Almanach für den Kreis Neuss (1980).
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