Treasure find from Lengerich
The Lengerich treasure trove was made in 1847 in the Lengerich district of Sudderwehe in the Emsland district in Lower Saxony . On a hill in 1847 a treasure of Roman gold and silver coins and pieces of gold were found under three large reading stones. Many coins and some of the gold jewelry were soon melted down, but Pastor Lodtmann from Freren managed to save all the pieces of the treasure that were still accessible.
A treasure was found under each of the three stones. The Lohe find is one of the richest treasures in Lower Saxony. The find consists of goods that indicate a high status. It is no longer possible to determine how the last owners of these goods came from Roman times. It can be a question of Roman tribute payments as well as the looted goods of a military leader in Germanic or Roman service. Provided that these types of depots did not generally have a ritual background.
Depot 1
Under the first stone, covered with a small bronze bowl , lay 1100 moderately to well-preserved silver coins in pure sand. All coins are denarii of the 2nd century AD and range from Trajan (98–117) to the final coin of Septimius Severus (193–211). The mass comes from Antoninus Pius (138-161), Marc Aurel (161-180) and Commodus (180-192). One copy is a barbaric imitation.
Depot 2
Under the second stone were about 10 gold coins from the time of Constantine and his sons together with gold jewelry under artificially piled small stones. The only surviving coin dates from the year 327. The gold jewelry consisted of:
- a large necklace with "drooping Pendeloquen " (melted),
- two open bangles with hexagonal thickened ends,
- a spirally rolled finger ring made of gold wire with seven and a half turns,
- a double finger ring made of 2 identical hoops,
- two golden finger rings with a raised central disc, each adorned with an engraved star,
- four hollow, bell-shaped buttons, with a filigree crossbar on top,
- an onion button fibula of the cross-arch type, faceted bow and crossbar, onion buttons set off by stripes of pearl, ornaments on top of the crossbar and on the needle sleeve, bronze mandrel only fragmentarily preserved. Inscription on the underside of the transom: ROMAN ... ERME.
Depot 3
Under the third stone - covered by the fragments of a flat silver bowl - lay over 70 silver coins of Magnentius (350–353) and a silver medallion of Constantius II (337–361). Most of the coins were from Trier Argentina from the year 350 in mint condition.
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Häßler (Ed.): Prehistory and early history in Lower Saxony . Theiss, Stuttgart 1991, p. 424, ISBN 3-8062-0495-0