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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Gars-Thunau Hillfort Alternative Name: Thunau am KampCountry: Austria
NOTE: This site is 3.094 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Gars am Kamp
Latitude: 48.351990N Longitude: 15.385583E
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4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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Hillfort in Lower Austria
Hillfort in Lower Austria, close to Gars am Kamp.
Findings from late neolithic to early medieval times.
Biggest part of the still existing structures has been built in the early iron age. The Fort was important for merchants coming from all over central and eastern europe due to its ideal location. The city must have flourished until the slavs attacked and probably destroyed the fort.
Later an early christian slav church was erected at the cliffs of the end of the fort. It's foundations still remained until today. During excavations several in strange ways executed men and children have been found next to the church, usually the dead were buried at the nearby cemetary. The people might have been killed in a ritual.
The Fort is naturally protected from two sides.
The third side can be accessed through a steep path, where a gatehouse with tower hast been reconstructed. The foundations of the walls still existed and were built from expensive stone that had to be carried more than 100 km to the hillfort. This might show the wealth of this ancient settlement. The reconstrucion of the tower is incorrect, as stated by the local archaeologists.
The fourth side can be easily accessed and was heavily defended by very strong walls up to six meters high (2 meters and more can still be seen today) and more than 10 meters thick. The Frontside was a wood-stone-earth construcion that was burnt down during the erection to protect the wood from weathering and to harden it.
Altogether the site shows three gates.
Today the site is an important place for education of young archaeologists. Each year educational excavations take place in Thunau with mostly students from the Vienna Institute for Archaeology. To attract tourists several signposts with explanations have been erected.
Easy to find, easy to access, definitely worth a visit!
source a.o.: http://www.austriaca.at/?arp=0x0010f2a6
Maciej Karwowski, Thunau am Kamp – Eine befestigte Höhensiedlung (Grabung 1965–1990)
ISBN 978-3-7001-3603-3
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