Tumulus
Name Place Region Bundesland Type Date Era
Auleben ( Auleben grave-hill field ) Auleben Nordhausen Thuringia Grave-hill field 1500 - 1200 BC Bronze Age
Benther hill Badenstedt [ de ] Region Hannover Lower Saxony Hilly-grave 1800 - 1100 BC Early Nordic Bronze Age
Kreuzlinger Forst [ de ] / Mühltal Gauting Munich area Bavaria Hilly-grave 2000 - 1500 BC Bronze Age
Germans Grave ( Itzehoe ) [ de ] Itzehoe Kreis Steinburg Schleswig-Holstein Hilly-grave 1500 - 1300 BC Bronze Age
Giesen Tumuli [ de ] Giesen ( village ) [ de ] Landkreis Hildesheim Lower Saxony Hilly-grave 1600 - 1200 BC Bronze Age
Bonstorf Barrows Bonstorf Landkreis Celle Lower Saxony grave-hill field 1500 - 1200 BC Bronze Age
Lahnberge Tumuli [ de ] Marburg Landkreis Marburg-Biedenkopf Hesse > 200 Hilly-graves 1600 - 5th century BC Middle Bronze Age ( Tumulus culture ) , Late Bronze Age ( Urnfield culture ) , Iron Age ( Hallstatt Culture )
Wilhof mountain [ de ] Willhof Landkreis Schwandorf Bavaria Hilly-grave 1516 BC Middle Bronze Age , early La Tene culture
Daxberg Tumuli ( Mömbris ) Daxberg ( Mömbris ) [ de ] Landkreis Aschaffenburg Bavaria Hilly-grave field 2000 - 800 BC Iron Age
Hohenfelde Hohenfelde ( Mecklenburg ) Mecklenburgische Seenplatte Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 7 Hilly-graves 1700 BC Bronze Age
Neu Quitzenow Neu Quitzenow Rostock Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 2 Hilly-graves 1800 - 600 BC
Grabhügel von Leubingen Leubingen Sömmerda Thuringen grave-hill 1940 BC Unetice culture
Sites -- Western and Central Europe
Hügelgrab ( `` barrow '' , `` burial mound '' or `` tumulus '' ) sites in Germany dating to the Early and Middle Bronze Age .
A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds or kurgans, and may be found throughout much of the world. A cairn, which is a mound of stones built for various purposes, may also originally have been a tumulus. Tumuli are often categorised according to their external apparent shape. In this respect, a long barrow is a long tumulus, usually constructed on top of several burials, such as passage graves. A round barrow is a round tumulus, also commonly constructed on top of burials. The internal structure and architecture of both long and round barrows has a broad range; the categorization only refers to the external apparent shape. The method of inhumation may involve a dolmen, a cist, a mortuary enclosure, a mortuary house, or a chamber tomb. Examples of barrows include Duggleby Howe and Maeshowe. The word tumulus is Latin for 'mound' or 'small hill', which is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *teuh2- with extended zero grade *tum-, 'to bulge, swell' also found in tomb, tumor, tumescent, thumb, thigh, and thousand.