Stockhof

Stockhof is a megalithic burial mound, or tumulus with integral stones, at Gröna, a district of Bernburg (Saale) in Salzlandkreis, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. It was built as a grave mound of the late Neolithic Bernburger Kultur. The estimated dating is 3500 BCE to 500 BCE.

The mound is aligned southwest to northeast and originally appears to have been oval. When excavated in 1884 it measured 30 m in length and 7 m in width, although its eastern side had already been heavily ploughed and it was probably wider originally. Excavation and the construction of a power line in the 1960s further changed its appearance, and it is now very flattened.

Excavations took place in 1884 during three days. A central stone-lined chamber grave was found, with only its north and south walls surviving. It contained several adult and child burials, placed in crouched positions in two zones. Among the grave goods were more than 60 ceramic vessels, some flint blades, and numerous perforated canine teeth; 60 teeth were found inside a vessel. The finds were recovered only partly, and most of the pottery went to the Schlossmuseum Bernburg.

A later burial from the Völkerwanderungszeit, dated to the 5th/6th century AD, lay 1.6 m from the southern edge of the mound. The extended skeleton was about 2 m long, with an iron ring, two ceramic vessels, and a three-tier ivory comb. The Stockhof finds helped form the basis for the first definition of a Bernburger ceramic style by Alfred Götze in 1892.

Stockhof is a megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones) in Bernburg, Germany. A typological estimate: 3500 BCE to 500 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the German article "Stockhof (Gröna)", shown in the original language.