Blučina burial
The Blučina burial is a Migration period princely burial at Blučina, near Brno, Moravia, Czech Republic, excavated in 1953 by Karel Tihelka (1898-1973).
The burial dates to the second half of the 5th century, i.e. the period of political unrest as the Hunnic Empire crumbled in the decades following Attila's death.
The grave is situated on Cezavy hill, above the confluence of the Cezava and Svratka rivers. It contained the remains of a Germanic nobleman, deceased in his thirties, arrayed with a golden-hilt spatha, a seax, a bow, a saddle and three green glass vessels, besides items of personal jewellery, including a 50 solidi gold arm ring.
The Blučina sword is a rare example of an "Alamannic type" gold-hilted spatha found in a number of graves of very high ranking warriors of the second half of the 5th century.[1]
References
- ↑ a total of 20 known examples are listed by Frank Siegmund in Ian N. Wood (ed.), Franks and Alamanni in the Merovingian period: an ethnographic perspective, Boydell & Brewer, 1998, ISBN 978-0-85115-723-8, p. 192.
- K. Tihelka, Das Fürstengrab von Blučina (1963)
