Lexden Tumulus
The tumulus of Lexden (Engl. Lexden Tumulus ) is the Fitzwalter Road in Lexden, a suburb of Colchester in Essex ( England ). Lexden used to be a village and was called Lessendon, Lassendene and Læxadyne. Lexden is mentioned in the Domesday Book .
The 1924 excavated, but previously robbed, still 1.5 m high tumulus , which is believed that he the grave of 40 n. Chr. Late Cunobelinus , King of Catuvellauni , or even Addedomarus, King of Trinovantes is, has still 30 m in diameter. It was once nine meters high and 100 meters in diameter.
The grave goods, mostly intentionally destroyed, give an insight into the extent of the Romanization of the local aristocracy before the Claudian invasion in AD 43. 17 wine glasses, a chain mail and a coin from Augustus from 17 BC were found. BC, which was mounted as a portrait medallion. Other finds included a statuette of Cupid and bronze figures of bulls, boars (the lexton boar) and griffins. Trade with Roman Gaul had already influenced the fashion of the rich.
At the end of the Roman Iron Age there are a number of rich burials (Snailwell in East Cambridgeshire , Welwyn in Hertfordshire and Aylesford in Kent ).
literature
- Jennifer Foster: The Lexden Tumulus: Re-appraisal of an Iron Age Burial from Colchester, Essex 1987 ISBN 978-0-86054-408-1
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Coordinates: 51 ° 53 '10 " N , 0 ° 52' 7.8" E