Gothic burials in Upper Don

[ualarauans]

I don't know if you already have this info. If not, here's a brief 
summary of what I found at 
http://www.regions.ru/news/location01817/1989121/. The news was 
published 04.07.2006.

<< A Gothic Christ's burial from the 5th ct. found

Ksizovo, Lipetsk region (Russia). On the 27th of June archaeologists 
excavated a grave of a 2 meter tall man, approx. 30-40 years old, 
dated to the 5th ct. AD and furnished in the traditions of the 
Christian Goths. The skeleton was posited with regard to points of 
horizon...

Several days before another surprising find was made some 10 meters 
from the Goth's burial. A wooden box containing remains of a 15 
years old girl was excavated from 50 centimeters deep under the 
surface. The girl's body had the perinatal pose... The funeral rite 
is thought to be connected with the pagan fertility cult of early 
Slavs...

Scientists do not exclude the option that a Hunnish Khanate existed 
here in the 5th ct... which united nomads of diverse ethnicities: 
Germanic, Visigothic (sic!), Slav... >>

A similar report from the same archaeological site was made almost a 
year earlier (to find at http://www.rg.ru/2005/08/05/dospehi.html):

<< Not far from Ksizovo village archaeologists revealed arms of an 
ancient warrior – a spear, a battle belt and defensive plates. Most 
probably, the armor belonged to one of the Germanic tribe of the 
Goths which populated this territory in the 4th – 5th centuries 
AD... >>

If the Gothic attribution of the finds is true, couldn't these Goths 
have been participants of Uinitharius' expeditions against the Antes 
(ca. 375 AD) or the descendants of those of them who stayed in the 
conquered country?

Ualarauans






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