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Unless otherwise stated, this image is the copyright of the submitter. Contact them for permission to reproduce it. |  | | Description | Trench of the Austrian team (Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Universität Wien) in 2009.
In this picture you can see the rampart three at the east side of mont lassois, in front of the seine river. Picture is taken from the northern side of the wall, looking at the crashed frontside of the rampart. This specific building technique is yet not well known and seems very uncommon for this time. We couldn't find any postholes, very few nails. Not much can yet be said about this way of construction. Seems like a very rude technique for a rampart this enormous!
This rampart is a part of the complex of four. Their function is yet unknown. Most probably they guarded the access to the river seine.
One of the biggest doubts about that: The Seine River is quite small and only accessible by small boats. The Rampart is TODAY about 6 meters high and has a ditch on BOTH sides, one of them is at least as deep as 7 meters. This is huge, as can be seen in my other pictures. So our team still can't explain the purpose of this monstrous wall.
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