Otzenhausen Hillfort
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: C. Haselgrove, J. Kunow Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: C. Haselgrove, J. Kunow Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
May 25, 2022 09:03 AM
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History
A large celtic hillfort located in the modern German municipality of Nonnweiler in the northern Saarland.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/109042
49.620857318, 7.00188611804
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Keltischer Ringwall (550 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Center point of oppidum Otzenhausen (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 4 meters.
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- Hunnenring (German, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Ringwall von Otzenhausen (German, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- None
- Hermeskeil Roman Camp located near Otzenhausen Hillfort (unspecified date range)
settlement (fortified), wall (defensive)
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 11 G3 Hermeskeil
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Hermeskeil, Otzenhousen GER
C. Haselgrove, J. Kunow, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Otzenhausen Hillfort: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/109042> [accessed: 20 June 2025]
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