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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Fürstengrabhügel HochdorfCountry: Germany
NOTE: This site is 4.298 km away from the location you searched for.
Land: Baden-Wuerttemberg Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Stuttgart Nearest Village: Eberdingen-Hochdorf
Latitude: 48.888850N Longitude: 9.009650E
Condition:
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| 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 |
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| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
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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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Text by anonymous (2-2010):
Reconstruction of the famous south-German round-barrow on original site.
In the mounds' wooden chamber a rich wagon-burial from Hallstatt D was found.
Gravegoods were a 4-wheeled wagon, several bronze-dishes, horse gear,
butcher's tools, several drinking horns (i.e. their mounts), a bronze sheet couch,
a bronze cauldron with three lion-figurines. It probably contained mead.
The dead man was lying on the couch. He wore a gold sheet neckring,
an antenna-dagger with gold-sheet around the sheath, several golden s-fibulas,
gold sheet shoe-covers. Bronze "Paukenfibel".
Everything was wrapped in cloth, pieces of which have survived.
The mound can be accessed easily by car.
A path leads to the standing stone on the summit of the mound from
where a nice view is to be had.
Visitors of the mound should visit the nearby "Keltenmuseum" in Hochdorf,
where the original finds are exhibited.
Literature:
f.e.
J. Biel / P. Frankenstein, Der Keltenfürst von Hochdorf (Stuttgart 1985).
(several newer editions exist)
Original Text by AlexHunger:
Large tumulus dating to 600 BCE. It is topped by a massive 3.2 Meter Menhir in very square shape, surounded by lose kerbstones and a woodhenge.Excavated starting in 1968. The impressive and unplundered finds of a Celtic lord, his chariot and bronze couch, among others are now in Hochdorf leten Museum and Stuttgart museum.
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