Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)
Grabhügelgruppe im Blumental
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Grabhügelgruppe im Blumental is a megalithic mound in Sankt Margarethen an der Raab, Austria. It lies at 47.0572° N, 15.7613° E.
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Grabhügelgruppe im Blumental
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Central Europe has a long sequence of burial mounds. The Unetice culture of the Early Bronze Age came first, and the Tumulus culture of the Middle Bronze Age, about 1600 to 1300 BCE, raised mounds across Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland and neighbouring regions. The Hallstatt culture of the Early Iron Age made the mound grand again. From the Hallstatt B phase, tumulus burial becomes common, and the Hallstatt period proper, 800 to 450 BCE, produced the "princely" graves of elites who lived in fortified hilltop centres. The regional background, “Central European tumuli”, is given below.
Dating
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Setting
3 other recorded monuments lie within 10 km (0 within 1 km, 1 within 5 km), 3 of them of the same type. In Sankt Margarethen an der Raab, Austria, 2 of the 2 recorded monuments are of this type.
The nearest recorded monuments are Grabhügel in den Feldwäldern (1.9 km west, megalithic mound); Hügelgräber Berndorf-Urlas (8.4 km south, megalithic mound); barrow cemetery Groß Hard (9.1 km east, megalithic mound); Hallstattzeitliche Hügelgräber (12.8 km south-east, megalithic mound).
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Heritage status: Listed objects in Austria.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Central European tumuli
Central Europe has a long sequence of burial mounds. The Unetice culture of the Early Bronze Age came first, and the Tumulus culture of the Middle Bronze Age, about 1600 to 1300 BCE, raised mounds across Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland and neighbouring regions. The Hallstatt culture of the Early Iron Age made the mound grand again. From the Hallstatt B phase, tumulus burial becomes common, and the Hallstatt period proper, 800 to 450 BCE, produced the "princely" graves of elites who lived in fortified hilltop centres.
The largest Hallstatt-period mound in Central Europe is the Magdalenenberg near Villingen-Schwenningen. Its central tomb, of an early Celtic prince, has been dated by tree rings to 616 BCE. The mound once stood 10 to 12 metres high with a diameter of 104 metres; 126 further graves were set in concentric rings around it in the decades after the prince's death, and about 500 BCE the central chamber was plundered by robbers whose wooden spades archaeologists later found. Folklore marks it too: in the 1640s, during a series of witch trials, several women confessed under torture to dancing with the devil on the Magdalenenberg. That is evidence of a belief, not of any event.
The Atlas's records in Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia are mostly tumuli of this Bronze Age and Iron Age sequence, and most are dated only by their form.
When visiting, look for mounds grouped in a cemetery rather than alone, since families and communities buried together, and for ploughed-down circular rises in fields.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Tumulus culture, Wikipedia: Hallstatt culture, Wikipedia: Magdalenenberg, Wikipedia: Unetice culture, Wikipedia: Tumulus · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Where it stands
Austria
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- Coordinates
- 47°03′26″ N, 15°45′41″ EFor a GPS or map app: 47.05718, 15.76128
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Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
Grabhügel in den Feldwäldern
Hügelgräber Berndorf-Urlas
barrow cemetery Groß Hard
Hallstattzeitliche Hügelgräber- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Hügelgräber Hofwald
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Hügelgräber im Hochwald
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Hügelgräber Unterkornbach
Hügelgräber Hofwald - Buchberg
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- Grabhügel in den Feldwäldern1.9 km W
- Hügelgräber Berndorf-Urlas8.4 km S
- barrow cemetery Groß Hard9.1 km E
- Hallstattzeitliche Hügelgräber13 km SE
- Hügelgräber Hofwald17 km SE
- Hügelgräber im Hochwald19 km N
- Hügelgräber Unterkornbach19 km SE
- Hügelgräber Hofwald - Buchberg20 km N
- Hügelgräber und Siedlung Schröttenwald/Steinfeld20 km E
- Hügelgräber Fuchswald/Zachwald21 km SE
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