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Multi-periodSite Name: Gräberfeld GittrupCountry: Germany
NOTE: This site is 7.546 km away from the location you searched for.
Land: North Rhine-Westphalia Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Münster
Latitude: 51.986969N Longitude: 7.608157E
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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The Gräberfeld Gittrup is a barrow cemetery in Münster (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany). It was used from the Bronze Age to the early Pre-Roman Iron Age.
During the excavations, several keyhole-shaped graves (“Schlüssellochgräber“), long barrows, round barrows and simple graves without mound or enclosure were discovered.
Some of the urns are displayed in the Heimatmuseum in Kinderhaus in Münster.
Literature:
[01] Kunter, M.: Der Mensch als Geschichtsquelle: Totenverbrennung und Leichenbrandanalyse. In: Westfalen in der Bronzezeit (2008).
[02] Mecke, B.: Bevorzugtes Wohnen am Friedhof: Münster-Gittrup. In: Westfalen in der Bronzezeit (2008).
[03] Herring, B.: Katalog der Grabeinhegungen: Deutschland, NordrheinWestfalen. Inventory of oblong and keyhole shaped grave ditches of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in the area between Aller and Dordogne. In: Materialhefet zu Ur- und Frühgeschichte Niedersachsens.
[04] Mecke, B.: Bevorzugtes Wohnen am Friedhof: Münster-Gittrup. In: Wstfalen in der Bronzezeit (2008).
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