Eckes, Anja
Das Schlüsselloch-Gräberfeld am Oespeler Bach: Befunde und Funde der jüngeren Bronzezeit am Hellweg in Oespel und Marten, Stadt Dortmund
This work presents part of the results of an excavation carried out from 1991 to 1995 at the Oespeler Bach in the west of the city of Dortmund. The archaeological investigations yielded surprisingly diverse results. Apart from the prehistoric burial ground expected at this site, Neolithic, Middle Bronze Age and Roman Iron Age settlement features were found here. In the present volume, the Late Bronze Age cemetery was analysed.
A total of 269 burials and 69 ditches were documented – exclusively cremation burials in urns or organic containers, of which about a quarter was integrated into a ditch. Keyhole-shaped grave ditches occur most frequently and are the southernmost representatives of their type. Investigations of the cremations and the remains of the pyre complete the picture of the burial ground, which was used in two phases (Ha A to Ha B2/3).
