Hallstatt period burial mounds in Sankt Helena, municipality of Simmelsdorf, administrative district of Nürnberger Land, Middle Franconia; Field campaign: Continuiation of the excavation St. Helena Simmelsdorf (Sankt Helena)
Third party funded individual grant
Acronym: Sankt Helena
Start date : 01.04.2015
End date : 31.10.2019
Project details
Short description
Teaching excavation of the Institute for Prehistory and Early History: Excavation of Iron Age burial mounds
From
2012-2019 annual teaching excavations of the Institute took place on
the Hallstatt period barrow field of Simmelsdorf - St. Helena. The work
was funded by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Protection (BLfD)
and carried out in cooperation with the BLfD and the Natural History
Society in Nuremberg (NHG).
In 2012, a first, relatively poorly
preserved mound (Mound 1) was investigated, the much larger and also
much better preserved Mound 2 with a diameter of more than 20 m was the
focus of the research from 2013 - 2017. In the course of this, another,
significantly smaller tumulus, Mound 3, was also discovered in 2015. In
2017, the discovery of mound 4 followed. The work in the field could be
brought to a preliminary conclusion in the spring of 2019.
https://www.uf.phil.fau.de/abteilungen/juengere-urgeschichte/projekte-der-juengeren-urgeschichte/das-hallstattzeitliche-graeberfeld-von-simmelsdorf-st-helena/
Scientific Abstract
Teaching excavation of the Institute for Prehistory and Early History: Excavation of Iron Age burial mounds
From 2012-2019 annual teaching excavations of the Institute took place on the Hallstatt period barrow field of Simmelsdorf - St. Helena. The work was funded by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Protection (BLfD) and carried out in cooperation with the BLfD and the Natural History Society in Nuremberg (NHG).
In 2012, a first, relatively poorly preserved mound (Mound 1) was investigated, the much larger and also much better preserved Mound 2 with a diameter of more than 20 m was the focus of the research from 2013 - 2017. In the course of this, another, significantly smaller tumulus, Mound 3, was also discovered in 2015. In 2017, the discovery of mound 4 followed. The work in the field could be brought to a preliminary conclusion in the spring of 2019.
https://www.uf.phil.fau.de/abteilungen/juengere-urgeschichte/projekte-der-juengeren-urgeschichte/das-hallstattzeitliche-graeberfeld-von-simmelsdorf-st-helena/
