Thirty funeral urns uncovered in Lower Saxony

 

During the construction of a drainage channel in Lower Saxony, Germany, 30 funeral urns have been excavated. The urns have been identified to belong to the Urnfield Culture. The culture is named after their tradition of cremating the dead and burying the ashes in distinctive ceramic vessels.

The first funerary urns from Urnfield culture were discovered in early 1900s. The discovered urns have been dated to Late Bronze age (1200 – 600 BC).

The discovered urns will be studied by Hamburg Archaeological Museum.

The report was published in Bone & Bronze.