sentences:  Archaeological finds made at digs long ago have today for the most part disappeared, although a few are still kept at the "Museum des Historischen Vereins der Pfalz" (Museum of the Historical Society of the Palatinate) in Speyer.There are no finds from Roman times that can be definitively linked to Gries, although there have been some in neighbouring municipal areas, foremost among these Miesau’s.From the contiguous Free Imperial Domain ("freies Reichsland") around Castle Lautern, Frankish kings split certain areas away in the Early Middle Ages to donate them to both ecclesiastical and secular lordships.