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<< Our Photo Pages >> Mittelberg bei Nebra - Causewayed Enclosure in Germany in Saxony-Anhalt

Submitted by Klingon on Tuesday, 28 February 2006  Page Views: 24693

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Mittelberg bei Nebra Alternative Name: Nebra Sky Disk, Nebra Skydisk, Disc
Country: Germany Land: Saxony-Anhalt Type: Causewayed Enclosure
Nearest Town: Nebra  Nearest Village: Wangen
Latitude: 51.283810N  Longitude: 11.519860E
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
1 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 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
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
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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Nebra skydisk
Nebra skydisk submitted by Andy B : As of March 2002 The State Museum for Prehistory (Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte) in Halle, Germany, has been in possession of a bronze disc, which may prove to be one of the most significant finds in early European history. It has a diameter of 32 cm and a weight of 2 kg. The disc has an official name:"Himmelsscheibe von Nebra" and was found here. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Causewayed Enclosure in Saxony-Anhalt. At this place the Sternenscheibe von Nebra (Nebra skydisk) was found.

The entire area is surrounded by a wall and a ditch with a diameter of 150 to 160 m. But it's nearly invisible, only a few centimeters height have survived. There are two more walls and ditches at the eastern and western side. It's estimated that the original height of the walls was 1.5 m, the ditches were 2.5 m wide and 1.2 m deep. They were not made for defence, only as bound of the holy area. The site was used from 1600 BC (Bronze Age) to 700 BC (Iron Age).

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Mittelberg bei Nebra
Mittelberg bei Nebra submitted by DrewParsons : Necklace size replica of the Nebra Sky Disk (which dates to around 1600BC) given to my wife by visiting friends from Germany. January 2014. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Mittelberg bei Nebra submitted by Klingon : The hole in the soil at the right border is the place of discovery of the Skydisk. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Mittelberg bei Nebra
Mittelberg bei Nebra submitted by Klingon : At this place the Sternenscheibe von Nebra (Nebra skydisk) were found. (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Mittelberg bei Nebra
Mittelberg bei Nebra submitted by Klingon : The line on the left hand side shows the direction of the sunset behind the Kyffhäuser hills at 1st May (Beltane) and the line at the right hand the sunset at 21st June (summer solstice) behind the Brocken mountain. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Mittelberg bei Nebra submitted by Klingon : The recreated wall around the holy area. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Mittelberg bei Nebra
Mittelberg bei Nebra submitted by Klingon : The location where the Sky Disc was found is now covered by a large mirror. Nearly the complete sky is reflected by it. But it needs to be cleaned ...

Mittelberg bei Nebra
Mittelberg bei Nebra submitted by Klingon : Look-out where you can watch the astronomical events as shown at the Sky Disc.

Mittelberg bei Nebra
Mittelberg bei Nebra submitted by Klingon : State archaeologist Harald Meller tells the complete story of the discovery of the Nebra skydisk.

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Mittelberg bei Nebra submitted by Klingon

Mittelberg bei Nebra
Mittelberg bei Nebra submitted by Klingon : Remains of the excavation.

Mittelberg bei Nebra
Mittelberg bei Nebra submitted by Klingon : Lot of people were interested in the first public sightseeing of the excavations at the Mittelberg.

Mittelberg bei Nebra
Mittelberg bei Nebra submitted by Klingon : In short distance are about one thousand of these small mounds. This is one of the tallest (height 40 cm). Only a few are excavated, some have Chambered Tombs.

Mittelberg bei Nebra
Mittelberg bei Nebra submitted by Klingon : The Nebra skydisk was found exactly here.

Mittelberg bei Nebra
Mittelberg bei Nebra submitted by Klingon : Remains of the excavation.

Mittelberg bei Nebra
Mittelberg bei Nebra submitted by Klingon

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Nebra Sky Disk to be displayed in British Museum from February 2022 by Anonymous on Monday, 18 October 2021
Read more here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58946633

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Rethinking Bronze Age Cosmology - a North European perspective by Andy B on Thursday, 07 April 2016
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Rethinking Bronze Age Cosmology - a North European perspective by Joakim Goldhahn

https://www.academia.edu/4320941/Rethinking_Bronze_Age_Cosmology_a_North_European_perspective
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The Nebra find and early Indo-European religion - Kristian Kristiansen by Andy B on Thursday, 07 April 2016
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Kristian Kristiansen: The Nebra find raises in a paradigmatic way central questions about the nature of early Bronze Age religion. In the following paper I propose that by placing it in a wider interdisciplinary field of knowledge it is possible to understand the ritual and religious role of the Nebra find. It can be demonstrated that it fits very well into a ritual
pattern of depositions, just as its dualism corresponds to a similar religious dualism in Proto-Indo-European religion, represented by the heavenly or »Divine Twins«. The two axes and swords are a worldly representation of these gods who carried the sun and whose mortal representatives can be identified by the recurring deposition of twin axes, swords, helmets and lurs throughout the Bronze Age.

This interpretation further supports the authenticity of the find. The unique bronze disc with sun, moon, stars and heavenly ship supports the interpretation of a shared, syncretistic Bronze Age religion from the Near East to Scandinavia based upon a sun cult. Just as the Trundholm Sun Disc represents a specific Nordic interpretation of Near Eastern sun discs, so the Nebra Sky Disc represents an interpretation of Near Eastern cosmological iconography and knowledge, transmitted to a European Bronze Age context. It indicates that the myth of the journey of the sun was anchored in a complex astronomic and cosmological system of knowledge performed by people with a special position in Bronze Age society, who can be identified in burials and hoard depositions.

From two volume conference report (1000 pages): Der Griff nach den Sternen. Edited by Harald Meller & Francois Bertemes. Halle 2010.

https://www.academia.edu/565963/The_Nebra_find_and_early_Indo-European_religion
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Re: Mittelberg bei Nebra by holger_rix on Wednesday, 12 May 2010
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Gold of the Skydisk of Nebra came from the river Carnon in Cornwall.



In the news here in Germany:

http://www.zeit.de


http://www.focus.de





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Re: Mittelberg bei Nebra by Anonymous on Monday, 07 September 2009
Hi there,

I heared about very nice copies of the nebra sky disc. In size 1:1 and solid bronze! But where they are available? Can anyone help out with a link?

Many thank's!
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Re: Mittelberg bei Nebra (Nebra Sky Disk) by Anonymous on Wednesday, 01 March 2006
The constructed diagram layout of the pieces directly coinside with the time/date symbols found within the layout of Stonehenge. But the picture of the disk is rotated counterclockwise 90 degrees.
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Re: Sky disc revelation shines light on Bronze Age by MickM on Tuesday, 28 February 2006
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Is there any definite evidence for the dating of this object to the Bronze Age? If not it is only proof that the makers of the disc had this astronomical knowledge.
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    Re: Sky disc revelation shines light on Bronze Age by Andy B on Tuesday, 28 February 2006
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    Absolutely agree. The tone all sounds a bit too definite in this one.
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Sky disc revelation shines light on Bronze Age by Andy B on Tuesday, 28 February 2006
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German scientists have deciphered the most spectacular archaeological discovery in recent years, proving that the mysterious "sky disc of Nebra" was used as an advanced astronomical clock.

The 3600-year-old bronze disc inlaid with a gold-leaf sun, moon and stars was allegedly found by amateur treasure hunters in 1999 outside the eastern German town of Nebra, near Europe's oldest observatory, in Goseck.

It was seized in Switzerland in 2002 after a James Bond-style plot to sell it was foiled.

Researchers now say the disc is a complex astronomical clock of solar and lunar calendars. While the solar calendar indicates the position of the earth as it revolves around the sun, the lunar calendar is based on moon phases.

A lunar year is shorter than the solar year because 12 synodic months, or 12 returns of the moon to the new phase, take only 354 days.

The sky disc of Nebra was used to determine if and when a 13th month should be added to a lunar year to keep the calendar in sync with the seasons.

"This is a clear expansion of what we knew about the meaning and function of the sky disc," said Harald Meller, director of the Institute for Archaeological Research in Halle, Germany.

"The sensation lies in the fact that the Bronze Age people managed to harmonise the solar and lunar years. We never thought they would have managed that."

He believes only a small group of people would have understood how it worked.

More: The Age
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/sky-disc-revelation-shines-light-on-bronze-age/2006/02/28/1141095740221.html
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