Leuna burial ground

The grave field of Leuna is a burial place of the late Roman Empire in Leuna and one of the two eponymous sites of the Haßleben-Leuna group .

Find from 1834

In 1834 a grave was found in Leuna while digging gravel. The grave goods included ceramic vessels, including a Roman imported piece made from Terra Sigillata . The bronze dishes (ladle and sieve) and two glasses, including one depicting Artemis and Actaion , are also imports. Other finds include the remains of a wooden bucket, two silver spurs , two silver arrowheads, a belt buckle and three fibulae . The pieces first entered the collection of Felix Slade , who gave them to the British Museum in 1867 .

Finds from 1917

Another burial (grave 3.1917) was found during construction work in 1917. The State Institute for Prehistory then carried out an investigation in which two more burials were uncovered and documented. Three ceramic vessels were found in grave 1.1917. The equipment of grave 2,1917 included, among other things, a silver fibula, a set of ladle and sieve, a bronze plate, a silver beaker of the Leuna type, a comb, ceramics and an aureus of the Roman emperor Tetricus I.

Finds from 1926

Further body graves were discovered at the 1917 site in 1926. Grave 1.1926, a burial chamber, was probably disturbed. There was also a silver brooch, a pair of silver spurs and silver arrowheads, as well as a group of vessels. Grave 2, 1926 was also disturbed, the furnishings included a golden finger ring, bronze spurs, an imported Roman bronze tray and ceramics. The burial chamber of grave 3.1926 was also partially damaged. A pair of silver spurs, silver arrowheads, a group of vessels with ceramic vessels, another with imported bronze and glass dishes, an ivory box and a board game were preserved. The other burials were less richly decorated in comparison, grave 4.1926 contained an iron buckle and a knife, grave 5.1926 a gold-plated bronze finger ring, possibly a knife, a buckle and a pouch. Pottery was recovered from three other disturbed burials.

literature

• Matthias Becker : Leuna, district Merseburg-Querfurt. 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. 31–32.
• Walther Schulz : Leuna. A Germanic burial place from the late Roman Empire. Berlin 1953.

Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 57 ″  N , 12 ° 0 ′ 6.8 ″  E