Brick plate grave

Ancient brick tomb from the Gerulata Castle in the Rusovce Museum

In provincial Roman archeology, a brick slab grave is the name for a burial that is surrounded with bricks.

Most of the brick-plate graves date back to late antiquity . They can be of different shapes. Often the floor is also made of bricks lying flat. The side walls are often made of tegulae . If these are vertical, a cover is also required. Sometimes the tiles are leaned against each other in a roof shape.

In late antiquity, in the Roman Empire, in-body burial became widely accepted, and this also applies to the tile graves. Containers made of bricks for cremations are also known from the 3rd century AD.

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  Brick slab grave from Korbevac (Serbia) Neues Museum Berlin

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  Lauriacum

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  Viminacium

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  Krefeld-Gellep grave 3082

Web links

• Brief description of brick plate graves
• Roof-shaped tile-plate grave (photo) in the Badalona Museum

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See for example Bonner Jahrbücher 171, 1971, pp. 521–526 (from Jülich ).