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Submitted by Andy B on Sunday, 27 September 2009  Page Views: 4689

DigsSite Name: Heidelberg Hut
Country: Switzerland
NOTE: This site is 30.904 km away from the location you searched for.

Canton: Graubünden Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Davos  Nearest Village: Sent
Latitude: 46.885540N  Longitude: 10.290070E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Ancient Hut in Switzerland. Archaeologists in a remote region of Switzerland have excavated the ruins of the oldest hut in the Alps, a prehistoric discovery that dates back nearly 3,000 years.

The find in the Silvretta mountains near the Austrian border gives scientists the oldest architectural proof that early Iron Age shepherds spent summers living among the rich alpine grasses, tending to herds and using milk to make cheese, in a way much like farmers today.

"It is perhaps a bit of a cliché for Switzerland, but what is interesting is just how old it is," said Thomas Reitmaier, an archaeologist from Zurich University who led the team. "There are lots of interesting spots around here."

Carbon dating shows the hut at 2,264 metres in canton Graubünden was being used as early as 800 BC, hundreds of years before the Roman invasions, when pile dwellings dotted Switzerland's lowland lakes and people were of pre-Celtic tribes.

Not much remains of the hut today but Reitmaier and a team of university archeology students have spent the past three years meticulously excavating its foundation, a dry-stacked stone structure that held wood walls and a roof. The centuries had left the site overgrown with thick mud, roots and grasses. The hut could have held four to six people.

"We've known that people have used these summer pastures for thousands of years but the oldest proof of an actual shelter up until now is medieval," Reitmaier said. "Now we have a site that goes much further back."

More, with photos at Swissinfo

Note: Prehistoric hut gives clues to ancient Alp life
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Re: Heidelberg Hut by aolson on Tuesday, 08 January 2019
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As per Mona's note below, could you change the canton in the description from Aargau to Graubünden? Thanks
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Re: Heidelberg Hut by Anonymous on Wednesday, 22 March 2017
I have some informations to „Heidelberg Hut“ you submitted in September 2009.

1. This ancient hut is not called Heidelberg Hut. This ancient hut has no name.

The Heidelberger Hut (German: Heidelberger Hütte) is a mountain hut located in the Silvretta in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.
It lies at an altitude of 2,264 metres above sea level in the Val Fenga (German: Fimbatal) Latitude 46.909735 Longitude 10.259585
The hut was built between 1887 and 1889 by the Heidelberg division of the German Alpine Club (DAV),
which has operated it since. Since 1910, the hut has been a popular destination for winter sports as well. (Wikipedia)
Major expansions were finished in 1963 and again in 1979.

2007, a prehistoric ancestor of the mountain hut was excavated in close proximity to the Heidelberger Hut in the rear Fimbertal. This discovery provides the first direct, structural proof for the alpine-economic exploitation of the area during the 1st century BC. Fragments of prehistoric pottery proving this hut was used by farmers from Ramosch or Sent in summer as fixed residential and business centre. (Dr. Thomas Reitmaier)

2. Canton Aarau is wrong, it is situated in Canton Graubünden.

3. The co-ordinates are also wrong, because the ancient hut you can find close to Heidelberger Hut.
I couldn’t find out the exact co-ordinates of the ancient hut. Unfortunately there is no photo of the ancient hut.

Thanks
Mona
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