This article presents the stone tumuli with cremation burials at the sites of Vila Prah and Koroška cesta in Kranj. A revision of the archive documents enabled the reconstruction of the positions of individual finds and grave good assemblages from the area of Vila Prah, which most probably belonged to several cremation burials within a stone burial chamber. Excavations at the site Koroška cesta also unearthed cremation burials with preserved individual grave good assemblages. In addition to this, the article presents further Iron Age grave finds from Kranj, Stražišče, and Stanežiče near Ljubljana that are kept in the NMS. New findings regarding the tumuli and the mode of burial in Kranj as well as the comparative analysis of other cemeteries in Gorenjska indicate that in the region tumulus burial appeared as early as the Early Iron Age and was practiced simultaneously with the flat cremation burial, which had been in use already in the previous period. The cemeteries in the Gorenjska region that emerged with the beginning of the Iron Age were mostly abandoned at the end of the Ljubljana IIIa/Podzemelj 2 phase. Later material culture, such as the grave goods from Koroška cesta in Kranj, reflects the influence of the S. Lucia group, what further confirms the insights of Gabrovec, according to which the sphere of interest of the S. Lucia group spread into the territory of Gorenjska.
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In this chapter of a monograph the Early Iron Age graves from Molnik (Roje pri Orlah, Selska gmajna, Grmada) were analyzes. This more or less contemporaneous flat cremation graves and cremations under tumuli from Molnik differ from each other according to the grave constructions (stone slabs, tumuli etc.). An exact typo-chronological analysis of grave goods, maps of the distribution of individual finds as well as dating of separate graves were given. Special attention was paid to the rich cremation grave 17/6 under tumulus from Grmada dating to the beginning of the Early Iron Age in which an adult man was buried together with funeral attire, weapons, horse gear and his horse. The horse was just like his owner cremated on the pyre. The presence of weapons in graves as well as the burial of a horse together with the deceased witnesses on the novelties in the burial rituals that appeared at the beginning of the Early Iron Age in the South-Eastern Alpine region as well as in other neighboring areas. Different grave goods from this rich equestrian grave 7/6 and their wide distribution show that the Early Iron Age inhabitants of Molnik or at least some of them were part of large network of communication or various spheres of interaction among different communities, both with ones from the northwest, as well as far east.
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