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Submitted by Boeddel on Wednesday, 04 October 2017  Page Views: 1584

MuseumsSite Name: Museum Groß Raden.
Country: Germany Land: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Sternberg  Nearest Village: Groß Raden
Latitude: 53.735904N  Longitude: 11.871538E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
5 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Boeddel visited on 30th Sep 2017 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 4 great museum.

Museum Groß Raden.
Museum Groß Raden. submitted by Boeddel : Museum Groß Raden Photo by Bøddel 30/09-2017 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Museum in Germanty. Visitors can see selected displays and exhibitions from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

The exhibition building of the "Freilichtmuseum Groß Raden".

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Note: Slaughter at the bridge: Uncovering a colossal Bronze Age battle - a new exhibition opening 6th Oct 2017 and running until Sept 2018 - see the comments on our page
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Museum Groß Raden.
Museum Groß Raden. submitted by Boeddel : The flint was shot in this upper arm bone. The exhibition about the bronze age battle in the tollense valley. Photo by Bøddel 20/07-2018 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Museum Groß Raden.
Museum Groß Raden. submitted by Boeddel : A bronze arrow penetrated this skull. The exhibition about the bronze age battle in the tollense valley. Photo by Bøddel 20/07-2018 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Museum Groß Raden.
Museum Groß Raden. submitted by Boeddel : This skull shows evidence of blunt force trauma. The exhibition about the bronze age battle in the tollense valley. Photo by Bøddel 20/07-2018 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Museum Groß Raden.
Museum Groß Raden. submitted by Boeddel : Museum Groß Raden Photo by Bøddel 30/09-2017 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Museum Groß Raden.
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Museum Groß Raden.
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Museum Groß Raden.
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Slaughter at the bridge: Uncovering a colossal Bronze Age battle by Andy B on Thursday, 05 October 2017
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About 3200 years ago, two armies clashed at a river crossing near the Baltic Sea. The confrontation can’t be found in any history books—the written word didn’t become common in these parts for another 2000 years—but this was no skirmish between local clans. Thousands of warriors came together in a brutal struggle, perhaps fought on a single day, using weapons crafted from wood, flint, and bronze, a metal that was then the height of military technology.

Struggling to find solid footing on the banks of the Tollense River, a narrow ribbon of water that flows through the marshes of northern Germany toward the Baltic Sea, the armies fought hand-to-hand, maiming and killing with war clubs, spears, swords, and knives. Bronze- and flint-tipped arrows were loosed at close range, piercing skulls and lodging deep into the bones of young men. Horses belonging to high-ranking warriors crumpled into the muck, fatally speared. Not everyone stood their ground in the melee: Some warriors broke and ran, and were struck down from behind.

When the fighting was through, hundreds lay dead, littering the swampy valley. Some bodies were stripped of their valuables and left bobbing in shallow ponds; others sank to the bottom, protected from plundering by a meter or two of water. Peat slowly settled over the bones. Within centuries, the entire battle was forgotten.

In 1996, an amateur archaeologist found a single upper arm bone sticking out of the steep riverbank—the first clue that the Tollense Valley, about 120 kilometers north of Berlin, concealed a gruesome secret. A flint arrowhead was firmly embedded in one end of the bone, prompting archaeologists to dig a small test excavation that yielded more bones, a bashed-in skull, and a 73-centimeter club resembling a baseball bat. The artifacts all were radiocarbon-dated to about 1250 B.C.E., suggesting they stemmed from a single episode during Europe’s Bronze Age.

Now, after a series of excavations between 2009 and 2015, researchers have begun to understand the battle and its startling implications for Bronze Age society. Along a 3-kilometer stretch of the Tollense River, archaeologists from the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Department of Historic Preservation (MVDHP) and the University of Greifswald (UG) have unearthed wooden clubs, bronze spearheads, and flint and bronze arrowheads. They have also found bones in extraordinary numbers: the remains of at least five horses and more than 100 men. Bones from hundreds more may remain unexcavated, and thousands of others may have fought but survived.

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http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/slaughter-bridge-uncovering-colossal-bronze-age-battle
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Re: Museum Groß Raden. by Martin_L on Wednesday, 04 October 2017
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Access is 5. While able bodied people have to park at the village, the museum and the site both have special permission for disabled people: By the time of our visit we spotted cars of disabled people being allowed to drive all the way to the museum and also to proceed to the site. This is also explained on the Museum's website which is linked above.
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Might and Violence in the Bronze Age - exhibition opening 6th Oct 2017 to Sept 2018 by Boeddel on Wednesday, 04 October 2017
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Bloody gold "Might and Violence in the Bronze Age" is a special exhibition from 6. October 2017 to 10. September 2018 in the museum Groß Raden.

A Special exhibition of the Landesamtes Kultur und Denkmalpflege Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Landesarchäologie, Archaeological Freilichtmuseum Großraden, 6 October 2017 to 10 September 2018

Appriximate Google translation: Until a few years ago the Bronze Age appeared as a time of deep peace. Then the remains of a battlefield from the time around 1250 BC were excavated in the valley of the Tollense near Altentreptow. Chr. Was discovered. Thus, the image of the Bronze Age changed fundamentally. In the great conflict hundreds of young men faced each other. In the end, many of them were dead - hit with arrows, lances, swords and clubs. New questions are pressing: who had the power to wage war with thousands of people? And how is this extent of violence to be explained?

The finds from the Tollensetal and other spectacular finds from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern open the view into a world, which was networked from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean. Gold-adorned men and women with a kilo-heavy bronze dress appear, and a lady with a silk veil. How did they get that wealth and what role did they play in society?
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    Re: Museum Groß Raden. by Andy B on Wednesday, 04 October 2017
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    Thanks Boeddel, really good to know about this. I've put the exhibition news on our front page and added some more from the Google Translation. 'Bloody' in English is a very mild swear word - (really like 'bother' these days) so the title 'Bloody Gold' comes across a bit differently in English (like 'annoying gold'!) It's only a very mild word so not a problem it just reads a bit oddly.
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