Historical place profile
Glauberg
A major Celtic oppidum, located just southeast of the modern village of Glauberg, located in Hesse, Germany, included a fortified settlement and several burial mounds. It may have been the seat of an elite personage of the late Hallstatt and early La Tène periods.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:118701
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:118701
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 50.312993, 9.007007
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A major Celtic oppidum, located just southeast of the modern village of Glauberg, located in Hesse, Germany, included a fortified settlement and several burial mounds. It may have been the seat of an elite personage of the late Hallstatt and early La Tène periods.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 12 C2 Glauberg
Source and reuse
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Research path
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