111 Soil profile of two graves
The lacquer profile, in which two original burial pits are basically frozen, illustrates an incisive historical event for northern Germany: the transition from the pre-Christian to the Christian burial custom. In the older, deeper pit, a dead person was buried in a south-north direction. The iron belt buckle visible in the lacquer profile shows that this grave was cut across the middle of the body. During the excavation of the overlying west-east grave, which was cut lengthwise, the upper part of the older grave pit was destroyed. The bones that show through in the lacquer profile come from the skull of the Christian dead man.
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Cross-section through two Saxon Graves ( Lacquer Profile)
Age: 750 - 850 n. Chr. Middle Ages
Middle Ages: The beginning of the Middle Ages is generally equated with the end of the migration of peoples in Europe, which came to a halt at about the end of the 5th or beginning of the 6th century AD, and the concomitant collapse of the Western Roman Empire. The Middle Ages stood between antiquity and modern times and are characterised by the confluence of Christian and ancient as well as Celtic, Germanic and Slavic developments. With the Renaissance and the Reformation, the modern era began at the latest at the beginning of the 16th century.
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Location: Tangendorf