A Victim of the Hungarian Invasions of the 10th Century in Kempten, Bingen on the Rhine

During excavations carried out by amateurs just before the middle of the 19th century in an old cemetery on the northeastern edge of the Rochusberg in Kempten, Bingen on the Rhine, there came to light two rhombic arrowheads of Hungarian type of the 10th century. Clearly they originate from the grave of a Frankish warrior, who had been shot by Hungarian archers, which increases by one the small number of known burials of victims of the Hungarian incursions into the eastern Frankish kingdom (899-955). The grave in Kempten and the sarcophagus of Duke Conrad the Red in Worms, who was killed by a Hungarian arrow in the Battle of Lechfeld near Augsburg (955), are the first archaeological traces of the Hungarian incursions hitherto discovered on the western bank of the Rhine.