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Inštitut za arheologijo ZRC SAZU
ARHEOLOŠKI VESTNIK 64, 2013
Milan SAGADIN
The early medieval cemeteries of Komenda and Zgornji Brnik in the Gorenjska region
Abstract
Two early medieval cemeteries in the villages of Komenda and Zgornji Brnik in the Gorenjska region are discussed in this article. The Komenda cemetery at the church of St Peter displays three phases of burials, which correspond to the Carantania, “Transitional”, and Köttlach stages of the culture of the Alpine Slavic culture. Strong influences of late Roman traditions of the indigenous population, which might indicate the ethnicity of the deceased, have been identified in the earliest group of graves. A similar situation had been recognized in the earliest part of the Pristava Early Slavic cemetery at Bled, with the possibility of a close temporal contact between the indigenous and the Early Slavic part of the necropolis. The cemetery by the church of St Janez Krstnik (St John the Baptist) in Zgornji Brnik is interpreted as an argument for determining the borders of the grandparish of Kranj. It is supposed that when the Kranj parish was founded, burials in all the nearby villages ceased and were centralized in Kranj. Burials are presumed to have continued only in those settlements that were the most distant from the centre.
Keywords: Slovenia, Komenda, Zgornji Brnik, Early Middle Ages, inhumation burial, grave construction, tradition of indigenous (late Roman) population, knife, spindle whorl, jewellery, earring with a tin bead, grandparish
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