Bavaria: Archaeologists discover graves from the Carolingian period – Bavaria

Researchers dig up 30 skeletons, there is talk of an “absolute sensation”. And it gets even better: Anyone who wants to can participate in the excavations.

Scientists don’t tend to use superlatives. But what archaeologists in Zellingen, Lower Franconia, have been digging up for a week is an “absolute sensation” for Harald Rosmanitz. The archaeologists of the Spessart project have uncovered almost 30 skeletons (as of Thursday) in a field in the district of Duttenbrunn, which is remarkable in itself. Even more remarkable, however, is their origin: They are more than 1000-year-old row graves from the Carolingian period (approx. 750 to 900 AD). They belong to a settlement called Wüstung Seehausen. “For the first time we are dealing with real people from the settlement area between Würzburg and Karlstadt from that time,” says Rosmanitz.

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