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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Ringwall LuederichCountry: Germany
NOTE: This site is 6.587 km away from the location you searched for.
Land: North Rhine-Westphalia Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Overath Nearest Village: Bleifeld
Latitude: 50.931806N Longitude: 7.210529E
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 |
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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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| 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 |
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The oval-shaped fortification measures about 550 x 300 meters and comprises a total area of 15 hectares. As the excavation in the year 1956 has shown, it consisted of a 4,5 meters wide rampart with an inner wood-earth-construction and two v-shaped ditches, which had been carved into the genuine bedrock, in front of it.
The rampart and the ditches are generally in a bad condition. They’re well preserved in the southwest over a length of 600 meters, but are almost flattend in the northwest and completely vanished in the east. As burnt layers behind the rampart and inside the ditches suggests, the fortification has been damaged or even destroyed by fire. The excavated potsherds can be dated to the early Hallstatt Period of the Iron Age.
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