Well graves in Galia?

[Arahne]

I don't know how to translate the real name, in brief in Sirmium, SIngidunum and VIminacium such graves were found, and dated in the period I-III century A.D. SO if anybody knows about recent finds (last 15 years), or new publications about this strange sepulchral practice please give some info .
For those who don't know what I'm speaking about - well graves are really deep - 10 m or more, grave pits with human remains on the bottom. Their origin is in galia but they were found also in above mentioned roman cities in Serbia ( few dozens in Sirmium, 20 in Singidunum and round 30 in VIminacium).

update: while browsing www.viminacium.org I found Dr. Snezana's Golubovic article about these graves from Viminacium
http://www.viminacium.org.yu/ELibrary/p ... bovic2.pdf

[Arahne]

Still no one? Does not have to be from Galia...this is very strange manifestation of Celtic tradition recorded in roman times in Danube region...

[lisa]

I also think that burials in wells are very interesting. I attach a brief bibliography of more-or-less recent publications of funerary wells (if I have pushed the correct buttons). Hopefully some of the works will be new to you.

For whatever reason, this phenomenon seems to be studied mostly by French researchers. However, I think, even though these types of burials are found over much of Europe, scholars rarely connect them to each other. Burials of Iron Age people are not often archaeologically recoverable, and well graves might be part of the reason (difficult to find, not easily identified).

I wonder also if we see a continuation of this burial tradition in the Roman world, especially as practiced by Roman soldiers. For example, some of the pits at Newstead had skeletons ([url:3a6s4j30]http://www.curlesnewstead.org.uk[/url]) or even possibly the soldier in the well at Velsen (J.M.A.W. Morel and A.V.A.J. Bosman, 1989, "An early Roman burial in Velsen I" in C. van Driel-Murray, ed. Roman military equipment. The sources of evidence. Proceedings of the Fifth Roman Military Equipment Conference, [Nijmagen 1987], BAR Int. Ser. 476: 167-191).

I do wonder how common this burial practice might have been--and if we can even determine that--and in what regions it was practiced and by whom. Very minor details!!

[Arahne]

Well, it is interesting to note that this burial practice doesn't have predecessor in la tene or halstat period in Serbian part of Danube.