... or different culture stonemonuments from neolithicum over the bronce age till the migration of peoples and the early middle age.

The fotos of our homepage are impressions from different walk and bicycle holidays with the background of the pre- and early history of europe. Anyone who tried to find these ancient relics of the past should now that is sometimes realy hard to explore the hide monuments.
Of all the little settings which are partially or complete destroyed and also marked false in the hiking map are not easy to find.
By asking natives its often possible to see a book with 7 seals in their face and getting no answer. In spite of all these problems one year later we go again on our search!

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The "Boitiner Steintanz" ("Boitinier Stonedance") lies near Tarnow not far away of Güstrow. In the legend the four stonecircles are a petrified wedding-society. Like many others this ritual place was possibly used for the determination of astronomical events. During excavations was a urn founded from the iron age. On the left side you see the monument in Winter and on the right side in Summer. In the middle is a picture of the "Brautlade" a stone with 13 deepenings.

Not far away of the "Boitener Steintanz" I found the "Lenzener Steintanz". Again a, this time alone standing, Chromlech in the middle of the forrest.

...and again a stonecircle named "Seven Sisters" with a little earth wall and two in the near standing Menhirs. I founded the monument in the deepest brushwood on a ireland trip in November of 2002 near of Killarney (Kerry).
The right picture shows the entrance with 2 Menhirs.

As next some Oghamstones (from the same trip) which come from different places and are rebuilded here in the north of "Gap of Dunloe". Ogham-script is a realy late created writing of the island celts which is in the celtic mythology made up by the god Ogma, like Odin made up the germanic runes.

The "Bautastone" named stones on a gravefield near of Grebbestad (Tanum) in Sweden. They are a kind of memorial stones for deceased people like the tombstones today.

In the same holiday (summer 2002) a runestone inVinbäck. I´m not knowing about the translation.

The "Dölauer Jungfrau" ("Dölauer Maiden"), a Menhir nearby Halle which has originally a hight of 7,5 m and is today only 6 m high. Unfortunately the stone is today smeared with graffiti. In a fairytale its a female giant which become to stone.

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