Kriegergräber im grossmährischen Burgwall Znojmo-Hradiště und seinem Hinterland
| Title in English | Warrior Graves in the Great Moravian Hillfort of Znojmo-Hradiště and Its Hinterland. |
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Bewaffnung und Reiterausrüstung des 8. bis 10. Jahrhunderts in Mitteleuropa. Waffenform und Waffenbeigaben bei den mährischen Slawen und in den Nachbarländern. |
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| Web | https://www.arub.cz/produkt/bewaffnung-und-reiterausrustung-des-8-bis-10-jahrhunderts-in-mittelauropa/ |
| Keywords | Great Moravia; Znojmo-Hradiště; hillfort St.Hippolytus; fotified centre and hinterland; burial site; graves with weapons and spurs; grave goods |
| Description | This study presents the first (and completely new) information about the total of nineteen assemblages of warriors´ graves so far researched at the Great Moravian hillfort of S. Hippolytus in Znojmo and also in the hinterland of this power centre. This paper is based on an analysis of four graves from a small piece of a preserved burial site near Church II in the centre of the inner castle, a grave of an eight-year-old boy with spurs from the settled area of the castle and then eleven important graves from the recently discovered and continuously researched central burial site situated in the nearby western neighbourhood of Hradiště. So far we have excavated and researched only the northern edge of the necropolis, where over 400 (yet over 600) inhumations have been researched in partnership with a number of experts (over 100 samples were taken for DNA analysis). To the assembly of complete graves of warriors we added two old -somewhat difficult - damaged finds of noblemen´s graves with swords from the base of the Znojmo hillfort - from Dobšice and Hodonice, and also a new discovery, the grave of a horseman from Tvořihráz. The study presents all the finds that have been turned up so far, and attempts at a general evaluation. The results only confirm the exceptionality of this rather overlooked site - the St. Hippolytus hillfort and its crucial importance for the system of Great Moravia, among other things. |