Historical place profile

Heuneburg

An important hill fort with lower settlement near the source of the Danube, it flourished from the 7th to the 5th century BCE despite one major destruction.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:118742
Catalogue ID
pleiades:118742
Place type
hillfort, settlement, tumulus
Coordinates
48.094667, 9.412566
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

An important hill fort with lower settlement near the source of the Danube, it flourished from the 7th to the 5th century BCE despite one major destruction.

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 C4 Heuneburg

Source and reuse

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Research path

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