Archaeological discoveries – Page 4 – ArchaeoRegion Südweststeiermark

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World Wars I and II

Category: Earth work/Barrage
The Teufelsgraben – an inland limes of late antiquity, still used today
The Teufelsgraben (Devil’s Ditch) is a striking archaeological monument that extends over the entire Leibnitzer Feld and is still well preserved in some sections as a rampart-ditch complex. An excavation in 2005 by Kulturpark Hengist…
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Category: Roman settlement
Flavia Solva
Flavia Solva is the best known and most important Roman site in Styria. The only Roman city within the borders of the country can be considered in some respects as the first capital of Styria….
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Category: Roman settlement, Sanctuary
Retznei: From Celtic farmstead to Roman spring sanctuary
Retznei is located on the southern edge of Rosenberg hill, about 4 km south of Frauenberg hill and directly west of the Mur river. At this convenient location there was already a small village settlement…
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Category: World Wars I and II
Military camp Lebring and military cemetery Lang
The military camp Lebring, built during the First World War, has disappeared almost without a trace. The military cemetery belonging to the camp on the territory of the neighboring municipality of Lang, however, is an…
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Category: Industry
Museum “Waldglashütte” (Forest Glassworks) / Glaserwiese
On the so-called “Glaserwiese” (glazier’s meadow) in Fallegg, not far from the Klugbauer, the uniquely preserved ruins of a former glassworks of the Augustinian Canons’ Monastery of Stainz extend at an altitude of 1125 m…
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Category: Hilltop settlement, Tumuli
The Burgstallkogel near Grossklein and the Sulmtal Necropolis
Burgstallkogel hill near Grossklein is one of the most prominent archaeological sites of the late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age in Europe (9th-6th century B.C.). With almost 700 preserved burial mounds surrounding a…
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Category: Hilltop settlement
The Nestelberg or Königsberg hill near Heimschuh
In the lower Sulm river valley not far from Heimschuh there is a long forgotten peak with an excellently preserved prehistoric settlement, the so-called Nestelberg or Königsberg. This narrow point of the Sulm river valley…
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Category: Hilltop settlement
The Bubenberg near Spielfeld
The Bubenberg (or Hoar[r]achkogel) hill near Spielfeld is a low ridge in the south of Styria, directly on the border with Slovenia. Archaeological research has proven that the area was used in the Copper, Bronze…
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Category: Castle, Hilltop settlement
The Wildon Schlossberg – a strategic key site
The Wildon Schlossberg hill, with its almost continuous settlement activity, spanning more than 6,500 years, represents a unique finding-place in the southeastern Alpine region. In the 10th and 11th centuries, the Hengistburg castle, located on…
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Category: Tumuli
Tumulus cemetery – Buchkogel/northern slope
Although it has never been hidden, the Hallstatt-period barrow cemetery Buchkogel/northern slope in Unterhaus near Wildon has been known to official Styrian archaeology only since the 1980s. During an excavation in 2006/07 in mound no….
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