153 Hamburg-Schnelsen
Where the Heidlohstraße runs today, a burial mound was built in the Bronze Age. After more than 2,000 years, the Saxons again used this burial mound, which they presumably regarded as a sacred site, as a burial place: they buried urns in the mound, including this small clay vessel in which a child may have been buried.
Info: Showcase 153
Urn
Age: 400 - 500 n. Chr. Migration period
Migration period: Today, the transitional period from Antiquity to the Middle Ages is usually defined as the time of the migrations of the peoples from the 4th to the 6th century and the associated confrontation of the Germanic peoples with the culture of Antiquity and Christianity. However, the penetration of Germanic tribes into the Roman Empire did not mean the complete demise of ancient culture and its social and economic structures, as older research claims. Where the Roman Empire had had a formative influence for centuries, the old structures, institutions and traditions remained partially intact.
Material: Ceramics
Location: HH-Schnelsen