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6. Documentation currently available

So far, study of the old publications and unpublished documents still conserved in the archives of the Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art has revealed a total of 300 different Gallo-Roman sites, cemeteries, isolated tombs and funerary monuments in the territory of the present Grand Duchy alone. Of these 300 sites, it is possible to distinguish 172 cemeteries, 56 isolated tombs, 17 isolated tumuli, 12 groups of at least 2 tumuli, 22 sites yielding at least one funerary inscription, 25 sites yielding at least one funerary monument other than a tumulus, and 4 burial chambers.

At the present stage of research, analysis of the cemeteries alone gives the following results as regards the chronological distribution and continuity of occupation of the sites:

tombs from	number of cemeteries	% of datable cemeteries
1st century	74	69
2nd century	40	37
3rd century	25	23
4th century	17	16

Table. 1: Chronological analysis of Gallo-Roman cemeteries in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. (Total dated sites = 107)

	1st century	2nd century	3rd century
Total number of cemeteries	74	40	25
Number of cemeteries occupiedin the following century	33	20	5
Continuity rate	45%	50%	20%

Table 2: Continuity of occupation of Gallo-Roman cemeteries in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. (Total dated sites = 107)