Zethlinger Group

The Zethlinger Group is an early group of Lombards from the late Roman Empire and the early migration period in the Middle Elbe-Saale region in central Germany . These early Lombards, an Elbe Germanic tribe, demonstrably lived in this region. Presumably around 166 the group emigrated to the Roman Empire . The archaeological group was named after their largest burial ground on the Zethlinger Mühlenberg .

Zethlingen cemetery

The fire burial ground at Zethlinger Mühlenberg, dated to the late Roman Empire and the early migration period, has been largely excavated and examined since then. After the cemetery of Zethlingen, the early Lombards in the Middle Elbe-Saale region were named by research ( Berthold Schmidt ) as the Zethlinger group .

literature

• Matthias Becker: Investigations on the Roman Empire between the southern edge of the Harz, the Thuringian Basin and the White Elster. (= Publications of the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt 48). Halle an der Saale 1996.
• Fabian Gall: Settlements of the Roman imperial and migration period in the western Altmark. (= Publications of the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt 65). Halle an der Saale 2012
• Rudolf Laser: The cremation graves of the late Roman Empire in northern Central Germany. (= Research on prehistory and early history 7). Berlin 1965.
• Rudolf Laser: Roman finds between the Thuringian Forest and the Baltic Sea. Leipzig 1979.
• Corpus of the Roman finds in the European Barbaricum. Germany. State of Saxony-Anhalt. (= Corpus Barbaricum 6). Bonn 2006.
• Berthold Schmidt, Jan Bemmann: Body burials of the younger Roman Empire and the time of the Great Migration in Central Germany. (= Publications of the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt 61). Halle an der Saale 2008.