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<< Our Photo Pages >> Duensberg - Hillfort in Germany in Hesse

Submitted by Roana on Tuesday, 21 July 2009  Page Views: 3246

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Duensberg
Country: Germany
NOTE: This site is 6.67 km away from the location you searched for.

Land: Hesse Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Giessen  Nearest Village: Biebertal
Latitude: 50.650729N  Longitude: 8.580394E
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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1 Ambience:
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3 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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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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Duensberg
Duensberg submitted by Janek : The celtic Gate from the Ringwall Dünsberg (Vote or comment on this photo)
Hillfort in Hesse

A big hillfort with 3 rings of earth walls of a total length of more then 10 kilometers. Abandoned in the middle of the first century BCE.

This is the dominant hill overlooking the fertile lowlands at the knee of river Lahn (celt. Laugana - muddy water) near Giessen. Between the outer and the middle ring of fortification was probably a place for the people in the surroundings where they could flee to in case of an enemy attack.

Between the middle and the inner ring there are at last two village like settlements which werde burned down in the middle of the 1. century BCE.

Within the inner ring, a big telecommunication tower was built - during the building time there were found some remanents of the Beaker people. Almost all of the area in the inner ring is destroyed by building the tower, building a small hut for wanderers and forestation.

Some excavations there took place in early 20th century and then from july 1999 till today. Every summer there is an excavation campaign, lasting from three months in the beginning to 3-4 weeks this year.

Findings from there are on display in the nearby museum "Keltenkeller" in Biebertal

More info can be found at the site of the supporting club of the excavation at
http://www.archaeologie-im-gleiberger-land.de
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Duensberg
Duensberg submitted by Janek : Ringwall Dünsberg - Infotafel Pic from April 2020 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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