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Grabau barrows at dawn
My Portugal pictures still have to wait a bit - we had so beautiful mornings the last few days, so today I got up early, grabbed my camera and tried to catch those wonderful moments when the sun comes out and "wipes away" the morning mist.
The barrow field of Grabau at dawn. District Stormarn, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
In the New Stone Age (Neolithic Age, beginning about 3700 BC) dead people were buried in burial chambers of great boulders that were covered by a mound.
In the Bronze Age (beginning about 1600 BC) the deceased were laid into tree coffins. People often used the mounds of the Stone Age that were already there, and just threw another layer of earth upon them.
That's how these monuments often grew very big.
There's a legend about a golden cradle in the biggest of the Grabau barrows: Four poor men tried to excavate the treasure in the hour after midnight. After a long time of hard work, they tried to lift up the cradle with ropes. But on its way up the cradle got stuck on a root, which of course nobody could see in the dark. It is said that there was the smell of sulfur in the air, and so the tomb raiders thought that the devil himself interfered and restrained them from excavating the treasure.
The frustration of the would-be treasure hunters as well as the mockery of their fellow villagers caused that nobody ever tried to dig into the barrows again.
Image copyright: uempe (only sporadically here), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
My Portugal pictures still have to wait a bit - we had so beautiful mornings the last few days, so today I got up early, grabbed my camera and tried to catch those wonderful moments when the sun comes out and "wipes away" the morning mist.
The barrow field of Grabau at dawn. District Stormarn, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
In the New Stone Age (Neolithic Age, beginning about 3700 BC) dead people were buried in burial chambers of great boulders that were covered by a mound.
In the Bronze Age (beginning about 1600 BC) the deceased were laid into tree coffins. People often used the mounds of the Stone Age that were already there, and just threw another layer of earth upon them.
That's how these monuments often grew very big.
There's a legend about a golden cradle in the biggest of the Grabau barrows: Four poor men tried to excavate the treasure in the hour after midnight. After a long time of hard work, they tried to lift up the cradle with ropes. But on its way up the cradle got stuck on a root, which of course nobody could see in the dark. It is said that there was the smell of sulfur in the air, and so the tomb raiders thought that the devil himself interfered and restrained them from excavating the treasure.
The frustration of the would-be treasure hunters as well as the mockery of their fellow villagers caused that nobody ever tried to dig into the barrows again.
Image copyright: uempe (only sporadically here), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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