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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Urnengräberfeld HohnhorstCountry: Germany
NOTE: This site is 3.538 km away from the location you searched for.
Land: Lower Saxony, Bremen Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Hohnhorst
Latitude: 52.373889N Longitude: 9.365556E
Condition:
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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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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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The Urnengräberfeld Hohnhorst is an urn cemetery in Hohnhorst (Lower Saxony/Germany). The excavations in 2011 and 2014 discovered 350 burials.
Today, no remains of the cemetery can be seen above the ground.
Literature:
[01] Berthold, J.: Grabungsbericht zur Untersuchung des Urnengräberfeldes der vorrömischen Eisenzeit bei Hohnhorst. 2011.
[02] Berthold, J.: Urnen in Hohnhorst – Schaumburgs größtes Gräberfeld. In: Archäologie in Niedersachsen. 2012.
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