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<< Our Photo Pages >> Hornfels - Hillfort in Germany in Baden-Wuerttemberg

Submitted by AlexHunger on Tuesday, 13 September 2005  Page Views: 3936

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Hornfels Alternative Name: Ungarnwall
Country: Germany
NOTE: This site is 5.847 km away from the location you searched for.

Land: Baden-Wuerttemberg Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Basel  Nearest Village: Grenzach-Wyhlen
Latitude: 47.554500N  Longitude: 7.666950E
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aolson visited on 30th Dec 2020 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 3 Found it on our second visit. The first time we were looking too close to the rocky cliffs.

Hornfels
Hornfels submitted by aolson : The top of the remaining wall, looking south across the Rhine, with the large ditch on the left. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Fortification in Baden-Württemberg

IMPORTANT NOTE: Site believed to be near this position. 75 Meter long and 17 meter wide fortification dating to between 12th and 8th centure BCE. It was repaired during middle ages.
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Hornfels submitted by aolson : The remaining wall and ditch. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Hornfels by aolson on Wednesday, 30 December 2020
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Condition - 2
Ambience - 3
Access - 3

The presence of this structure only came to the attention of the scientific community due to excavations of Hallstatt period mounds and flat graves nearby in early 20th century. Hallstatt pottery was found near the remaining wall in the 1930's.

Post-war excavations show evidence of late Urnfeld occupation within the walls, and subsequent reoccupation and strengthening in the 9th century AD.

The original hillfort is now considered to have been occupied during the late Urnfeld and Hallstatt A/B periods. There is very little information about why or by whom it was used during Medieval times.

Sources: Tim Nagengast: Wen auch immer sie einst beschützte. In: Die Oberbadische from April 8 2015

Wolfgang Struck: Der Hornfelsen bei Grenzach. Vorgeschichte und frühmittelalterliche Befestigung. In: Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz (Herausgeber): Führer zu vor- und frühgeschichtlichen Denkmälern, Band 47: Lörrach und das rechtsrheinischen Vorland von Basel. Mainz 1981
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Re: Hornfels by aolson on Wednesday, 30 December 2020
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47.55889, 7.64739 - Accuracy 5
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