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Hornhausen rider stone
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Hornhausen stones.
The most famous and best preserved of the stones is the Hornhausen rider stone (German: Reiterstein), which depicts a Frankish horseman on his steed with a braided serpent-like animal underfoot. The rider stone was uncovered during farmwork in 1874 and used to pave a cowshed until it was purchased, along with two other fragments, by the Halle State Museum of Prehistory in 1912. Later excavations where the rider stone was found revealed more fragments and a large early medieval graveyard.