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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Biskupin Alternative Name: Urstädt
Country: Poland
NOTE: This site is 8.696 km away from the location you searched for.

Voivodeship: Kujawsko-pomorskie Type: Hillfort
 Nearest Village: Żnin
Latitude: 52.850000N  Longitude: 17.733333E
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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4 Access:
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4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Biskupin submitted by Creative Commons : Gate and wall from Biskupin Creative Commons image by Ludek Site in Kujawsko-pomorskie Poland (Vote or comment on this photo)
Hillfort in Kujawsko-pomorskie. Reconstruction of an Iron Age Hillfort on the site of an original Late Bronze Age/Iron Age site, next to a lake, which can be visited.

Biskupin has a unique place in the history of Polish archaeology. Here, in the small village far from big towns, Polish archaeology entered a new era. Research carried out on a huge scale, new methodology and well preserved wooden constructions of the prehistoric settlement – all these made Biskupin famous beyond the borders of the country.

Biskupin also has a place in the history of Polish culture of the 20th century.

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Biskupin
Biskupin submitted by Creative Commons : Model of Biskupin settlement Creative Commons image by Jarosław Bryła Site in Kujawsko-pomorskie Poland (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Biskupin submitted by Creative Commons : Wide view of Biskupin settlement Creative Commons image by Ludek Site in Kujawsko-pomorskie Poland (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Biskupin: A World of Wood Stolen by the Nazis by jopplanje on Sunday, 26 June 2016
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The GPS location is wrong:
52.788689, 17.745032
is the correct location, see also maps.google.com. Please change the GPS location.
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Biskupin: A World of Wood Stolen by the Nazis by Andy B on Saturday, 31 March 2012
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In 1933 Walenty Szwajcer, a local teacher on a trip to Lake Biskupin in Poland, noticed timbers in the lake. The following year Professor Józef Kostrzewski began a series of excavations that uncovered a large Iron Age settlement built of timber preserved in marshland at the edge of the lake. As more of the site was revealed, it became apparent that the scale of the find and its exceptional preservation made this one the greatest discoveries in the history of archaeology. The Poles were naturally pretty chuffed, and, sandwiched between Hitler and Stalin, they hadn’t got much else to be chuffed about in the late 1930s.

The settlement took the form of a large artificial Island surrounded by 450m of timber ramparts enclosing about 100 identical houses, laid out on a strict grid pattern separated by timber streets. The whole structure was very regular and built from standardised components. It dated to the Hallstatt period, but belonged to a northerly contemporary, the Lusatian culture, which is evident in the area immediately south of the Baltic, particularly in Poland. Modern dendrochronology dates the felling of many of the oak trees used at Biskupin to the winter of 738/737 BC. (Radiocarbon dating in the 1980s had placed the site up to a century earlier, which, not for the first time, was the cause of some confusion.)

The houses measured about 8 x 10m and were ‘log-built’ from pine, with oak used for important structural components. Each house had two main rooms, with a hearth in the largest. The rows of houses were separated by eleven 3m wide timber streets, which linked to an outer road running between the houses and the timber rampart.

As the excavation progressed, this extraordinary site became a cause for national pride among Poles, a culture so often dominated by its neighbours. To the Poles the site was a symbolic of nationhood and identity, and was testament to the achievements of ancient Polish or Slavic culture.

However, as in all good archaeology plots, in 1939 the dastardly Nazis turned up, and they had own very different ideas about culture, and just who had been responsible for any prehistoric achievements in northern Europe.

Read more, with illustrations at
http://structuralarchaeology.blogspot.co.uk/2008/12/16-world-of-woos.html
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