Deersheim burial ground

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Coordinates: 52 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  E

Deersheim burial ground
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location Saxony-Anhalt , Germany
Location Deersheim
Cemetery of Deersheim (Saxony-Anhalt)
Deersheim burial ground
When 500 AD - second half of the 6th century
Where Deersheim , district of Halberstadt / Saxony-Anhalt
displayed Special exhibition "Beauty, Power and Death" from December 11, 2001 to April 28, 2002 in the State Museum for Prehistory Halle / Saale

The old Thuringian cemetery of Deersheim from the Merovingian period near Halberstadt in Saxony-Anhalt was discovered in 1964 and excavated from 1964 to 1971.

Find description

The old Thuringian cemetery of Deersheim in the northern Harz foreland from the Merovingian period , dating to the early 6th century, was discovered in 1964 following a sand pit operation and excavated until 1971. It includes 42 burials, both body and cremation graves. There are only 15 adults among the graves, a high percentage. The cemetery also contains eight horse burials. Johannes Schneider published the found material with extensive documentation. The graves begin around 500 AD and end in the second half of the 6th century.

exhibition

Grave finds from the Merovingian era from Deersheim - a tumbler, a bronze bead-rim basin, a silver spoon and a gold case - were shown in the special exhibition “Beauty, Power and Death” from December 11, 2001 to April 28, 2002 in the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle / Saale .

Remarks

  1. ↑ See Johannes Schneider: Deersheim. A cemetery from the Migration Period in the northern Harz foreland. In: Annual publication for Central German prehistory. 66, 1983, p. 114ff.
  2. ↑ Cf. Multicultural Roots of the Merovingian Period. In: Harald Meller (ed.): Beauty, Power and Death. 120 finds from 120 years of the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle. Accompanying volume for the special exhibition from December 11, 2001 to April 28, 2002 in the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle / Saale. State Office for Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, State Museum for Prehistory (Ed.). Halle (Saale) 2001, p. 206f.

literature

  • Veit Dresely : Deersheim, district of Halberstadt. In: Siegfried Fröhlich (Ed.): From the prehistory of Saxony-Anhalt. State Museum for Prehistory Halle (Saale), Halle (Saale) 1995, ISBN 3-910010-13-X , No. 34–35.
  • Johannes Schneider: Deersheim. A cemetery from the Migration Period in the northern Harz foreland. In: Annual publication for Central German prehistory. Vol. 66, 1983, ISSN  0075-2932 , pp. 75-358.
  • Johannes Schneider: Grave forms and additions to the cemeteries of Deersheim and Weimar-Nord during the migration period. A contribution to classification of property and social structure in the Thuringian Empire. In: Friedrich Horst, Horst Keiling (Hrsg.): Funeral and death cult in prehistoric and early historical times. Contributions to grave customs, burial customs, accessories and the cult of the dead. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-05-001031-2 , pp. 209-238.
  • Frank Siegmund : Alemanni and Franks . In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Supplementary volumes. Vol. 23, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2000, ISBN 3-11-016788-3 , p. 209–238 (at the same time: Göttingen, Universität, habilitation paper, 1996).