Featured: Lost Secrets - an adventure during Neolithic times

Lost Secrets - an adventure during Neolithic times

Random Image


Sillustani necropolis

Help Protect this Brigantes Hillfort - Click to Sign the Petition

Help Protect this Brigantes Hillfort - Click to Sign the Petition

Who's Online

There are currently, 298 guests and 3 members online.

You are a guest. To join in, please register for free by clicking here

Sponsors

More Choices

Contribute to our running costs
Webrings
News Feeds
Megalithic Mysteries
Our Online Shop

<< Text Pages >> Yurtbasi - Hillfort in Turkey

Submitted by davidmorgan on Thursday, 08 January 2015  Page Views: 1766

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Yurtbasi Alternative Name: Yurtbaşı, Derbend Castle
Country: Turkey
NOTE: This site is 79.837 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Van
Latitude: 38.230903N  Longitude: 43.787658E
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
0No data.
 no data 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
0no data
 2
Be the first person to rate this site - see the 'Contribute!' box in the right hand menu.

Internal Links:
External Links:

Hillfort in Van Province, Turkey

A 3000-year-old pre-Urartian Iron Age castle located on a high hill.
You may be viewing yesterday's version of this page. To see the most up to date information please register for a free account.


Do not use the above information on other web sites or publications without permission of the contributor.


Click here to see more info for this site

Nearby sites

Click here to view sites on an interactive map of the area

Key: Red: member's photo, Blue: 3rd party photo, Yellow: other image, Green: no photo - please go there and take one, Grey: site destroyed

Download sites to:
KML (Google Earth)
GPX (GPS waypoints)
CSV (Garmin/Navman)
CSV (Excel)

To unlock full downloads you need to sign up as a Contributory Member. Otherwise downloads are limited to 50 sites.


Turn off the page maps and other distractions

Nearby sites listing. In the following links * = Image available
 31.8km WNW 295° Sardurihinili* Ancient Palace
 45.7km NW 323° Anzaf Hillfort
 46.6km NW 314° Rusahinili* Hillfort
 49.3km NW 308° Urartu Museum Museum
 49.7km NW 308° Tushpa* Ancient Village or Settlement
 52.1km WNW 285° Samran Channel* Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
 52.4km NW 314° Kalecik Stones Standing Stones
 73.0km S 184° Tirsin Plateau Rock Art
 73.1km NW 317° Ayanis Hillfort
 76.0km N 357° Körzüt Castle* Hillfort
 114.6km NW 306° Kef Kalesi Hillfort
 136.0km NW 325° Giriktepe Ancient Village or Settlement
 163.7km SSE 166° Shanidar Cave Cave or Rock Shelter
 169.3km SW 227° Amarsava Ancient Village or Settlement
 179.3km NE 50° Duzdag Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
 181.1km WSW 253° Güzir Höyük Ancient Village or Settlement
 187.6km NE 36° Ovchular Tepe Ancient Village or Settlement
 188.2km WSW 246° Cemka Hoyugu* Ancient Village or Settlement
 188.5km WSW 246° Boncuklu Tarla* Ancient Temple
 189.3km WSW 246° Zeviya Tivilki Ancient Village or Settlement
 194.5km SSW 195° Tepe Gawra Ancient Village or Settlement
 195.4km NNE 20° Artashat Ancient Village or Settlement
 195.4km NNE 20° Khor Virap* Early Christian Sculptured Stone
 197.7km SSW 195° Dur-Sharrukin* Ancient Village or Settlement
 197.8km W 261° Ayngerm Yani Ancient Village or Settlement
View more nearby sites and additional images

<< Heidenpuetz

Wetzrillen Wilgartswiesen >>

Please add your thoughts on this site

Contribute!

· NEW: I have visited
· I would like to visit
· Submit an Image
· Add a description
· Give accurate position
· Add a comment or news about this site

Avebury Archaeology Map - Worldwide Delivery

Avebury Archaeology Map - Worldwide Delivery

Sponsors

Auto-Translation (Google)

Translate from English into:

"Yurtbasi" | Login/Create an Account | 1 comment
  
Go back to top of page    Comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content.
Ancient castle discovered in Van by davidmorgan on Thursday, 08 January 2015
(User Info | Send a Message)
Academics have discovered a new castle dating back 3,000 years to the Iron Age in the eastern province of Van.

Yüzüncü Yıl University (YYÜ) History of Art Department Professor Mehmet Top, with the help of village head İrfan Yücel, recently revealed the existence of the castle in the Yurtbaşı neighborhood of Gürpınar district.

The castle, located on a high hill overlooking the region around 80 kilometers from the city center, is accessed after a challenging, hour-long climb. The walls of the castle have been ruined through time.

Top recently visited the castle to pick up some pieces of pots and pans to conduct further examinations.
He said that they had carried out excavations at the Hoşap Castle since 2007 and conducted research on the cultural artifacts around the castle. “We reached the castle in Yurtbaşı neighborhood when Yücel informed us about it,” he said.

Top said the structure was known among people of the region as Derbend Castle. “My examinations showed that this castle might be from the early Iron Age. The remains of stones and ceramic pieces on the ground prove that this place was a settlement. Probably it was a tableland settlement. Traces show us that it dates back to the pre-Urartian era, namely the early Iron Age. This age starts in 1200-1300 B.C. and continues through 1800 B.C. We already know that castle architecture began in this era and continued later on.”

The professor said they had made preliminary examinations in the castle and further examinations should be made by archaeologists. “We have informed the Van Museum about the castle but since the castle is not documented in records, works will start soon for it to be documented first,” he added.
“This is a castle from 3,000 years ago,” he said. “They were mostly built in valleys overlooking the valleys and tablelands. It is possible to see all these features here.”

Yücel said he met with Top during Hoşap castle excavations and told him about the castle in their neighborhood.

Source: Hürriyet

Also: Van’s Iron age castle new ancient discovery.
[ Reply to This ]

Your Name: Anonymous [ Register Now ]
Subject:


Add your comment or contribution to this page. Spam or offensive posts are deleted immediately, don't even bother

<<< What is five plus one as a number? (Please type the answer to this question in the little box on the left)
You can also embed videos and other things. For Youtube please copy and paste the 'embed code'.
For Google Street View please include Street View in the text.
Create a web link like this: <a href="https://www.megalithic.co.uk">This is a link</a>  

Allowed HTML is:
<p> <b> <i> <a> <img> <em> <br> <strong> <blockquote> <tt> <li> <ol> <ul> <object> <param> <embed> <iframe>
We would like to know more about this location. Please feel free to add a brief description and any relevant information in your own language.
Wir möchten mehr über diese Stätte erfahren. Bitte zögern Sie nicht, eine kurze Beschreibung und relevante Informationen in Deutsch hinzuzufügen.
Nous aimerions en savoir encore un peu sur les lieux. S'il vous plaît n'hesitez pas à ajouter une courte description et tous les renseignements pertinents dans votre propre langue.
Quisieramos informarnos un poco más de las lugares. No dude en añadir una breve descripción y otros datos relevantes en su propio idioma.