Archaeological site near Luchem
An archaeological site near Luchem is a large archaeological site near Luchem , a district of Langerwehe in the Düren district , North Rhine-Westphalia .
During excavations at the bypass directly on the federal motorway 4 between January and October 2011, around 750 finds from the first and third centuries AD were recorded. The work on the 45,000 m² area was carried out by a specialist company from Jülich on behalf of the State Office for Road Construction in North Rhine-Westphalia and under the technical direction of the Office for Land Monument Preservation in the Rhineland .
In addition to a completely preserved horse skeleton, a settlement consisting of five houses, a so-called vicus , remains of a street, several wells and a cemetery were discovered. The road is likely to have been a connection between the Roman settlements of Mariaweiler and Eschweiler .
According to archaeologists, the cemetery with 220 graves, of which at least 160 date back to Roman times , was the largest rural civil cemetery in the Rhineland . The oldest urn dated to date comes from the Bronze Age , i.e. from around 1000 BC. Chr.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 220 graves and a horse skeleton on az-web.de on October 26, 2011.
Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 5 ″ N , 6 ° 22 ′ 28.1 ″ E