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<< Our Photo Pages >> Wallburg Jäckelchen - Hillfort in Germany in North Rhine-Westphalia

Submitted by Harald_Platta on Tuesday, 01 December 2015  Page Views: 738

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Wallburg Jäckelchen
Country: Germany
NOTE: This site is 14.449 km away from the location you searched for.

Land: North Rhine-Westphalia Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Attendorn
Latitude: 51.092310N  Longitude: 7.961250E
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
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Wallburg Jäckelchen
Wallburg Jäckelchen submitted by Janek : Wallburg Jäcklechen Pic from Juli 2019 (Vote or comment on this photo)
The Wallburg Jäckelchen is an Iron Age hillfort in Attendorn (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany).

Today, the site mainly consists of the remains of the early medieval castle of the same name. At least some of the Iron Age ramparts seem to have been reused for the castle.


Literature:
[01] Capelle, T.: Wallburgen in Westfalen-Lippe. Herausgegeben von der Altertumskommission für Westfalen (2010).
[02] Lukanow, S.: Fundchronik für den Kreis Olpe 1948–1980 (1984).
[03] Hömberg, A.K.: Heimatchronik des Kreises Olpe (1967).

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