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The area of the early medieval settlement of Aschheim. The presumed area of the settlement is shaded, the area of farm A, B and C (fig. 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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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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... belt. He was also equipped with a sword, a belt-bucket with gold and silver bars inside, and with spurs, horse harness and a saddle (Later 2012, 595-596 with Abb. 9; Gutsmiedl-Schümann/Pütz forthcoming). This grave is very comparable to the graves that were laid out at the early medieval church of Aschheim, far west in the same settlement ( fig. 5). Therefore it seems, that two very outstanding families were living in Aschheim at the same time: One who built a church that was only accessible to members of their family or their farm, and buried their deceased there (GutsmiedlSchümann/Pütz forthcoming; more general on "family churches" see Böhme 1996), and one who buried their ...
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