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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Mšecké Žehrovice ViereckschanzeCountry: Czech Republic
NOTE: This site is 4.392 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Bohemia Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Nové Strašecí Nearest Village: Mšecké Žehrovice
Latitude: 50.169682N Longitude: 13.920452E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Rectangular fenced area with the high earthen ramparts and the outside ditch built by the Celts in La Tène Period (200-100 BC) as a cultic and social place, so called "Viereckschanze". Inside the enclosure was found bases of the large building of an unusual structure, perhaps some kind of shrine.
The location is well known mainly for the superb finding of the Celtic Hero sculpted head made of cretaceous limestone. The head was found in 1943 in a pit on a southwest corner of a enclosure. Other artifacts found in the pit include burned animal bones, pottery sherds, pieces of saprolite and a piece of iron wire.
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