Eberdingen-Hochdorf
Burial: Wagon
Image #216562
Type of object: Chariots and Wagons
Material: wood, iron
Length: 4.5m (box: 1.71*0.68*0.085m, pole: 2.38m)
Period: Hallstatt
Find spot: Burial (male), Eberdingen-Hochdorf
Country: Germany
Date: 6th c. BCE
Collection: Stuttgart, Württembergisches Landesmuseum
This wagon was found in the unplundered burial chamber at Hochdorf. In the chamber,
the body was not placed on this wagon, but on the couch which
was on other side of the chamber. On this wagon, plates for banquet service were
found. This must be related to their belief of after-death world or a ritual.
This is a four-wheel wagon. Each wheel has ten spokes. It has a draught pole (2.38m
long). The height of the wagon box is just above its axles. This has the different
sturucture from one at Vix, whose box is lifted
to the height of the top of wheels. The wagon box was not attached to the axles,
so it was removable. It was decorated with iron sheathing.
Above are images of reconstruction of Hochdorf grave (Courtesy Dr Jorg Biel).
There are plates on the wagon, and drinking-horns on the wall. The body was
on the couch.
Burial Couch
Collection: Stuttgart, Württembergisches Landesmuseum
Bibliography
- Biel, J. "The late
Hallstatt chieftain’s grave at Hochdorf." Antiq. 55 (1981). P.16-18.
- Bittel, K. (ed.) Die
Kelten in Baden-Württemberg. Stuttgart (1981).
- Pare, C.F.E. Wagons
and Wagon-Graves of the Early Iron Age in Central Europe. Oxford (Oxford
University Committee for Archaeology, 1992)
- Piggott, Stuart. The
Earliest Wheeled Transport: From the Atlantic Coast to the Caspian Sea.
Ithaca (Cornell University Press, 1983).
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, . Wagon,
Chariot and Carriage: Symbol and Status in the History of Transport. (Thames
and Hudson, 1992).
- http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~umw8f/Barbarians/Sites/Hochdorf/Hd_Wagon.html
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