Hochdorf
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- Created on: 10-05-14 13:40
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- Hochdorf
- Features
- Grave chamber enclosed with wood and stone, within side the log chamber.
- Closed the chamber and covered in earth
- Log construction grave chamber
- Grave chamber enclosed with wood and stone, within side the log chamber.
- Site Description
- Central log tomb
- Large tumulus, 8m high burial mound, surrounded by a stone circle (rites of intensification)
- Single adult male, inhumation
- 40 year old man, no cause of death determined, over 6ft tall (above average)
- Body embalmed before burial
- no hair on body, maybe preservation treatment.
- Numerous grave goods
- Burial interpreted as an elite
- Societies at this time modelled as chiefdoms.
- Artefacts
- Drinking horn (feasting)
- Gold bowl
- Birch bark hat
- Gold knife
- Gold shoe ornaments
- Gold fibulae
- Gold belt cover
- Gold neck ring
- Bronze couch
- A complete wagon (takes up nearly half of the chamber.)
- Large Cauldron, with 3 cast bronze lions (all different) high status
- Comparative arch sites
- The Princess of Vix, France (Iron Age)
- chamber contained a wagon but dismantled
- High status burial
- Her body was laid out just like Hochdorf's body
- Female and had typical artefacts of that which would be found in a male chamber.
- Gold collar (offerings)
- Statues of gold winged horse
- Kylix (Greek drinking vessel) (feasting)
- Also had a large cauldron, filled with honey mead (alcohol)
- Cauldron decoration of chariots
- Wetwang Slack
- Also had a wagon buried with her.
- The Princess of Vix, France (Iron Age)
- Religious key terms
- Ritual feasting
- Rites of intensification
- Grave goods
- Mortuary ritual
- Votive offerings
- Animism (lions on cauldron)
- Iron Age, Inhumation in Germany
- Features
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