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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Grabhügelgruppe Westheim Alternative Name: Hügelgräber bei Westheim
Country: Germany
NOTE: This site is 23.699 km away from the location you searched for.

Land: Bavaria Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Westheim
Latitude: 49.012963N  Longitude: 10.675621E
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
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 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.
4 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
5

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The Grabhügelgruppe Westheim is a barrow cemetery in Westheim (Bavaria, Germany). It consists of 146 barrows and is supposed to be the biggest preserved barrow cemetery in Mittelfranken.

The cemetery dates from the Hallstatt as well as Latene period of the Pre-Roman Iron Age.

Reference:
[01] Bayerisches Amt für Denkmalpflege: D-5-6930-0001 Bestattungsplatz der Hallstattzeit mit Grabhügeln. In: List der Bodendenkmäler in Westheim.

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