Archaeological excavations at Belcreda di Gambolò, inwards the Province of Pavia (Lombardy), accept revealed a full of 27 tombs of Lombards most the provincial road. The necropolis dates dorsum to the fourth dimension of the autumn of the Lombards inwards Italy, inwards the 6th century AD.
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| View of the excavations at Belcreda di Gambolò [Credit: La Provincia Pavese] |
Along alongside the tombs of the Lombards to a greater extent than or less belonging to the Gepids too emerged, a population that was subjugated yesteryear the Lombards, whose concluding virile mortal monarch Cunimondo was killed yesteryear Alboino inwards an elbow grease to driblet dead dorsum his kidnapped daughter, the famous Rosmunda.
"Drink Rosmunda from your father's skull", said Alboino when he informed the princess of her father's death, according to a legend that has its roots inwards history, as well as which is enriched yesteryear the findings of this discovery.
These findings are farther confirmation that the Gepids, afterward existence defeated yesteryear the Lombards, assimilated alongside them. "It is a clan of warriors belonging to the Lombards who, during their descent into Italy, brought alongside them other clans of allied populations," explains the digging manager Nicola Cassone.
"According to the Benedictine monk, as well as historian of the Lombards, Paolo Diacono, claimed at that topographic point were at to the lowest degree 20,000 Saxons inwards the footing forces of King Alboin. In reality, at that topographic point is exclusively i tomb that tin strength out move attributed alongside certainty to a Lombard warrior, because it contained a scramasax or brusk sword which dates dorsum to the offset catamenia of the Lombard descent into Italy. Axes as well as other types of weapons were constitute inwards the other tombs."
"The tomb that appears to move the burial of a prominent individual, given the presence of the sword, a cavalry weapon," Cassone adds.
"Every tomb," continues Cassone, "had its ain vase, a drinking glass as well as a flask. This is i of the few findings of a grouping containing to a greater extent than than xx ceramics. The materials constitute confirm the dating to the halt of the 6th century. In the meantime everything is existence sent to the Superintendence inwards Milan as well as therefore that the restoration move tin strength out begin."
Source: La Provincia Pavese [July 13, 2018]
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