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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Warburg-Daseburg Henge Alternative Name: Kreisgrabenanlage Warburg-Daseburg, Daseburger KreisgrabenCountry: Germany Land: North Rhine-Westphalia Type: Henge
Nearest Town: Warburg
Latitude: 51.493889N Longitude: 9.216944E
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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| -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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| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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A few items have been found during the excavation. These comprise cremated bones of animals and a human canine tooth as well as pottery, which includes a decorated baggy pot. Based on the analysis of the findings, the enclosure has been dated in the time between 4600 and 4400 BC. Therefore, it is most likely that it was build by the Rössen Culture.
As with all known henge enclosures, the original function of the Warburg-Daseburg henge is not known. It may have been used as a secular assembly point, but possibly also for religious rituals or as an astronomical calendar. Given that the people of the Rössen Culture belonged to the first farmers in history, it may as well have been a mixture of all three elements.
There are indications that the Warburg-Daseburg henge was suitable to be used for astronomical observations. The four entrances can roughly be aligned with the cardinal points. The west entrance allowed the sighting of the stars Altair and Spica, while the star Deneb could be seen through the north entrance and the star Aldebaran as well as the Pleiades could be detected via the east entrance. Moreover, it was possible to sight summer solstice, because then the sun would set right behind the nearby volcano Desenberg when observed from the center of the henge.
The archaeologists did put the henge back into the ground. Today, it is again hardly visible and not accessible as it lies on private property. However, a part of the discovered objects is displayed in the museum LWL-Museum für Archäologie in Herne. Figure 1 is a photo taken from the corresponding vitrine in Herne. The display cabinet is embedded in the floor of the museum. The displayed picture is a photo taken during the excavations. The ecliptic of the sun, which it would have had in 4500 BC, has been added to this picture. This demonstrates, that a viewer who was standing in the middle of the henge, would have seen the sun disappear right behind the volcano Desenberg during summer solstice. The decorated baggy pot was found in the ditch of the henge. Figure 2 shows the visitors`information. The draft marks the ditch and the position of the gates, which are aligned to the cardinal points.
The Warburg-Daseburg henge can be marked as a rather small, but well analysed enclosure.
Text References:
[01] H. Kröger & H.J. Betzer: Die mittelneolithische Grabenanlage von Warburg-Daseburg, Kr. Höxter. In: Archäologische Beiträge zur Geschichte Westfalens (1997).
[02] H. Kröger: Die Kreisgrabenanlage von Warburg-Daseburg, Kr. Höxter. In: Archäologie in Ostwestfalen 3 (1998).
[03] W. Schlosser: Archäoastronomische Objekte der Hellweg-Region (2). In: Andromeda – Zeitschrift der Sternfreunde Münster e.V. Nr.2 (2000).
[04] M. Meyer & D. Raetzel-Fabian: Neolithische Grabenwerke in Mitteleuropa - Ein Überblick (2006).
[05] T. Plath: Zur Problematik der Nutzungsinterpretation mittelneolithischer Kreisgrabenanlagen. Dissertation Universität Hamburg (2011).
[06] M. Baales & H.-O. Pollmann: Kreisrunde Grabenwerke des Mittelneolithikums in Westfalen. In: Revolution Jungsteinzeit (2015).
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