Archäologisches Zeichnen: Fundkomplex Urnen Legden-Haulingort (Teil 2)

In the previous part 1, I used this clock to show how ceramic vessels are drawn in archaeology. This is what it looked like when the clock was found and exposed in the excavation. As a reminder, I will show here again the finished drawing from part 1. Now I present the other vessels and drawings of the excavation complex. 29 vessels, of which 22 clocks and 7 vessels. Sometimes as a photo with drawing, sometimes only drawn. Sometimes reconstructed from individual parts and sometimes put together from top and bottom. Urns with the corresponding vessel, urn substrates, vessels with handles are all drawn and documented. In the excavation site of the excavation complex, it is largely an extended excavation field, which extends over a diameter of about 1 km. In time, it is assigned to the later Bronze Age up to the early Iron Age, i.e. over a period of about 500 to 1,000 years. Presumably, therefore, no uniform vessel shape can be seen, and only one vessel shows, as we know, a rich decoration. The dead were burned at that time, then the burned bones were sorted and buried in urns. Often they were burned with their personal belongings. In the course of the work process, I often get thoughts and questions. What is the connection between the dead? Did some of them know each other? Why only one decorated vessel and that so particularly beautiful? Was there a person with a special gift or position? The graphically prepared plan shows the exact location of the vessels on the excavation site. Two formations with one vessel each are surrounded by a circular trench. The soil material taken from them was originally poured over the graves to hills. The arrangement and density of the vessels raises questions for me. How exactly did the place, the place as a cemetery, look like? How did the graves fit into the landscape? How did the people feel in this place? Did they grow with the place? Much has passed in time and space, and in a period of so many centuries, it is probably difficult to reason. And now, the task of our archaeologists.