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Part of the early medieval settlement of Aschheim. The three presumed farm areas are labeled A, B and C. "Tuffplattengrab" = grave with tuff slabs (illustration by Anja Pütz, AschheiMuseum; after Pütz/Later 2013 and Gutsmiedl-Schümann/ Pütz forthcoming, with modifications).
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Zitat: Doris Gutsmiedl-Schümann, Individual lifeworlds and social structured societies in Merovingian settlements of the Munich Gravel Plain. In: Liv Helga Dommasnes / Doris Gutsmiedl-Schümann / Alf Tore Hommedal, The Farm as a Social Arena (Münster 2016), 105-125. -----
Abstract:
Cemeteries and graves from the Merovingian Period on the Munich Gr...
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... exception, however, might be a recently excavated site at Aschheim, next to Kirchheim, where parts of an early medieval settlement were excavated. Three possible farms seem to be separated by small roads (fig. 4, the farms are labeled A, B and C). In the south of the area of farm B a big building measuring 80 m by 6 m was excavated, which might be interpreted as a storage building, as its closest parallels are late Roman storage buildings or granaries, so called horrea (Pütz/Later 2013). This building dates from the 7 th /8 th century to the ...
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... that a large number of people probably stayed for several days in the early medieval settlement, food supplies must have been crucial. It is, however, very interesting that no farmyard burials were found on the area of farm B with its big storage building -whereas the area of farm A contained several burials, and the area of farm C a few burials (fig. 4). Among the farmyard burials on farm A, two outstanding graves will be mentioned: first, the unfurnished grave of an adult man that was covered with slabs made of tuff. Graves with built-in elements of stone are very uncommon in the area, therefore the grave is outstanding -especially if the quality of the stone features is taken into ...
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... are found in Aschheim: On the one hand, a church that was built around 700 AD at the westernmost edge of the early medieval settlement, and on the other hand, some wells with built-in stone structures (Pütz 2008; 2011). In Kirchheim, however, no stone-built features were found. The second outstanding farmyard burial is grave 7b from farm area A (fig. 4).Unfortunately, the grave had been disturbed and did no longer contain many grave goods; however, it can be reconstructed as the burial of an adult man, who was dressed in cloth with golden embroideries , wearing a multipartite, late Merovingian belt. He was also equipped with a sword, a belt-bucket with gold and silver bars inside, and ...
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... main source for social structure of early medieval society: Graves So far, the social structures of early medieval societies have mainly been investigated archaeologically through graves and cemeteries. It is assumed that each Merovingian cemetery is connected to a settlement, a hamlet or a village; therefore the graves might also reflect to a certain extent the social organisation of the farms as well as the 4) marked with "A". The large Merovingian cemetery can be found at "B", and at "C" the early medieval church is located (illustration by Anja Pütz, AschheiMuseum; after GutsmiedlSchümann/Pütz, forthcoming). ...
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