ABSTRACT
In contrast to churchyard cemeteries which lie around churches, we designate those burial places with roots in pre-Christian times which as a rule lay outside the settlement as 'grave-fields'. The advance of research and its conclusions are here incomparably better than among the other types of evidence. Alone in south-west ern Germany, the Alemannic region, there are hundreds of cemet eries and some tens of thousands of graves with hundreds of thou sands of grave-goods, as opposed to only a few fragmentarily ex cavated settlements and fortified sites.
