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<< Other Photo Pages >> Fuorcla da Strem Sut - Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry in Switzerland in Uri

Submitted by Megalithic89 on Tuesday, 03 May 2022  Page Views: 457

Multi-periodSite Name: Fuorcla da Strem Sut Alternative Name: Untere Stremlücke
Country: Switzerland
NOTE: This site is 16.26 km away from the location you searched for.

Canton: Uri Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Nearest Town: Altdorf UR  Nearest Village: Amsteg
Latitude: 46.731100N  Longitude: 8.780300E
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
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data 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
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2 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
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Fuorcla da Strem Sut
Fuorcla da Strem Sut submitted by Megalithic89 : Site in Canton of Uri Switzerland. On this picture of 1984, the site was covered with ice. Fuorcla da Strem Sut (left side), Brunnifirn glacier (centre towards bottom right), (Mount) Oberalpstock (top, centre). © ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv / Fotograf: Bock, Franz / WIH_FLs21-725 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry in Uri

The retreating Brunnifirn glacier in the Alps of central Switzerland exposed a rock crystal extraction site exploited during the Early and Late Mesolithic. It has yielded organic objects preserved in the ice as well as rock crystal and quartz extraction waste, knapping debris, and tools.

The extraction site was probably covered with ice from around 5900 BC to 2013, when the local quartz crystal hunter Heinz Infanger discovered it. The site is situated at 2917 m a.s.l.

Very interesting pictures in the second reference.

References:
[1] „Fundstelle ist nun auch Thema in norwegischer Fachzeitschrift“, Neue Luzerner Zeitung, Lucerne, 23rd April 2022

[2] Marcel Cornelissen, Christian Auf der Maur & Thomas Reitmaier (2022): A Glacially Preserved Mesolithic Rock Crystal Extraction Site in the Swiss Alps, Norwegian Archaeological Review.
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