Quote Originally Posted by SaFe
Watchman is correct with the saying that germanics did not take their prized weapons or armour to the grave. The gave them instead to their sons or relatives for further use.
One other reason why no swords and armours had been found.
That would be the most reasonable explanation, given that Germany was the source for iron works for Central, Northern and Eastern Europe since the Middle Ages. And this also applied for regions like Westphalia that were never much Romanized or Celtizied. In fact Lübeck was founded to trade salt and products (mainly iron works) from Northern Germany with raw materials from Scandinavia and the Blatics, that became the base for the wealth of the Hanse.

It is hard to belive that the same people had only primitive smithworks during the Iron Age. And in return it would mean that the wealthy warriors were very well able to equipe them with chainmail, iron helmets and the like, even though there had been certainly fewer men been able to afford it than amongst the richer Celts.