Looking for lost pieces of a puzzle: the Dollkeim-Kovrovo culture cemetery at Perdollen
Volume 28 (2021), pp. 175–216
Pub. online: 29 December 2021
Type: Article
Open Access
Open Access
Received
7 July 2021
7 July 2021
Revised
7 August 2021
7 August 2021
Accepted
21 September 2021
21 September 2021
Published
29 December 2021
29 December 2021
Abstract
The article is devoted to the archaeological discoveries in the former village of Perdollen. A flat
cemetery of Dollkeim-Kovrovo culture was discovered in this locality, dating back to the Roman
period, and probably also to the Early Migration period. Moreover, there was a cemetery from
modern times with inhumation graves. The Dollkeim-Kovrovo culture cemetery was badly damaged
by agricultural work, and the extraction of gravel and sand. Most of the artefacts discovered
there come from excavations carried out by Carl Engel in the 1930s. Apart from one fibula, probably
a Roman import, all the items are lost. The sources of knowledge about the state of research
are almost exclusively archival materials and some daily newspapers.