Richly decorated jewellery made of gold and amber suggest that a woman was buried in the tomb, archeologists say. The subterranean chamber was uncovered at the prehistoric Heuneburg hill fort near the town of Herbertingen in south-western Germany. [Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden-Württemberg]
Love the detail work on the orb.
/johnny
WOW — BTTT
I used to keep up with a Scottish genealogy forum. I remember one time a German posted that he was not Scottish but noticed they had just found a Celtic tomb only a few hundred yards from his house.
This must have been 6 or 7 years ago.
If you go to the original article, the photo slide show is mostly pictues of the moving of the entire 80 ton tomb.
Sort of gives the term ‘grave robbing’ a whole new meaining.
-——They say the grave is unusually well preserved——
a rather hypocritical statement in the light of the site being haule4d away on a truck. The grave was in fact destroyed
They're reconstructed some of the wall and houses:
