Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Nécropole de tumulus protohistorique
Mussig, Bas-Rhin, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Nécropole de tumulus protohistorique (cad. 41 24 ; 42 26) : classement par arrêté du 3 mars 1989
- Protection dates
- 1989/03/03 : classé MH
- Type
- site archéologique, tumulus
- Main period of construction
- Age du fer
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Lieu-dit
- Plotze-et-Flachsland
- Commune
- Mussig
- Département
- Bas-Rhin
- Region
- Grand Est
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.23072, 7.50143
- Mérimée reference
- PA00084811
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Alsatia Superior cu Suntgoia et Brisgoia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Nécropole du 1er âge du fer comprenant 55 tertres répartis en deux groupes. L'un des cinq tumulus fouillés à ce jour a livré une palissade circulaire formée de pieux de chêne, l'un des seuls exemples conservés de ce type de structure au niveau européen.
English translation
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History
Necropolis of the 1st Iron Age comprising 55 barrows distributed in two groups. One of the five tumuli excavated to date has yielded a circular palisade formed by oak piles, one of the only preserved examples of this type of structure at the European level.
Nearby in the register
- Église protestante (ancienne église catholique)église2 mi
- Immeuble Boeglerimmeuble2 mi
- Banc-reposoir dit banc du Roi de Romebanc public2 mi
- Ancien hôpital bourgeoishôpital3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.