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<< Our Photo Pages >> Bärhau Grabhügel - Artificial Mound in Switzerland in Aargau

Submitted by AlexHunger on Saturday, 18 February 2006  Page Views: 4195

Multi-periodSite Name: Bärhau Grabhügel
Country: Switzerland
NOTE: This site is 1.412 km away from the location you searched for.
Canton: Aargau Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Zürich  Nearest Village: Unterlunkhofen
Latitude: 47.323630N  Longitude: 8.399000E
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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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Bärhau Grabhügel
Bärhau Grabhügel submitted by Megalithic89 : Site in Unterlunkhofen, Switzerland Photo by: Béla A. Polyvás (c) Kantonsarchäologie Aargau, CH-5200 Brugg Photo provided for the sole publication on the Megalithic Portal UK. I thank the Canton of Aargau, Archaeological Department. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Tumulus in Aargau

Field of 63 Iron Age tumuli in forest. The largest has two menhirs on top.
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Bärhau Grabhügel
Bärhau Grabhügel submitted by Megalithic89 : Cremated ashes buried under these tumuli, 8th Century BC. Source: Canton of Aargau Archaeology, Infoboard. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Bärhau Grabhügel
Bärhau Grabhügel submitted by Megalithic89 : Ashes buried in one or several urns, 8th Century BC. Photo taken in June 2021. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Bärhau Grabhügel
Bärhau Grabhügel submitted by Megalithic89 : Site in Aargau Switzerland Photo taken in June 2021. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Bärhau Grabhügel by Megalithic89 on Saturday, 17 October 2020
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This is the biggest field of celtic tombs in Switzerland. The area covers 15'000 m2. The 3 biggest mounds go back to the 4th century BC, the 60 smaller mounds date back to the 8th century BC. In times these mounds were used, the area was not wooded. So the mounds were visible from far away. In each mound one person was buried, normally. These people belonged to the upper society.

They investigated the site about 100 years ago and found archeological material (plates made of clay, gold, silver and bronze jewellery).

Source: Canton of Aargau, Kantonsarchäologie. Newspaper "Anzeiger des Bezirkes Affoltern", 16th October 2020, Interview and text by Andrea Weibel.

Also Richard Walker mentions the site in "Stonehenge im Säuliamt", Internet Version 1_2, page 50.
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Re: Bärhau Grabhügel by Megalithic89 on Saturday, 17 October 2020
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