3 101 X Hohenasperg, a 6th century hillfort with Mediterranean imports. A number of rich barrow burials are located in the vicinity, including Hochdorf.
#PW Hohenasperg
4 101 X Zavist was a large and sprawling hilltop defended settlement of the 6th century BC. At its heart was an extremely strongly and elaborately defended area containing an altar which is interpreted as an important cult centre.
#PW Zavist
5 101 X A fine example of the distinctive burials laid on chariots that characterized the Champagne region in the 5th century BC. Among the grave goods were imported Greek pottery and an Etruscan bronze flagon.
#PW Somme-Bionne
6 9 5 1
#RD Hochdorf
7 0 5 11
#IW Vix krater
8 17 5 1
#IS IS Celtic Art
9 101 X By about 500 BC, the Greeks, who had previously traded directly with Central European chiefs, shifted their attentions to the Black Sea area. Mediterranean luxuries now reached new areas of barbarian Europe across the Alpine passes. This later trade was more diffuse. Celts themselves often travelled to north Italy, as raiders, traders or mercenaries: some settled there while others returned home with their fine acquisitions.
#PW Basse Yutz
10 0 5 6
#IW Massilia and European Trade
11 0 5 4
#IW Hallstatt
12 102 A A massive and exceptionally well preserved defended settlement of the earlier 1st millennium BC. Within its wooden stockade, rows of wooden houses lay along corduroy timber roads, housing perhaps 500 people. Despite its impressive size and order, there were few traces of social differences.
#PW Biskupin
13 101 X From the 5th century, Durrnberg replaced Hallstatt as a major centre for salt extraction.
#PW Durrnberg
14 101 X The great Etruscan and Greek emporium of Spina was built on the Adriatic coast in the 5th century BC to handle trade through the Adriatic with Greece and northwards through the Po plains and across the Alps into Celtic Europe. Like later Venice, Spina was laid out along canals rather than streets.
#PW Spina
15 101 X Four beautiful Celtic gold torcs (neck rings) and three armlets were found beneath a rock at Erstfeld. Far from Celtic settlements but on the route that traversed the Alps through the St Gotthard pass, they were presumably concealed by a Celt travelling to north Italy to trade for Etruscan wine or other luxuries. Some disaster must have prevented his return.
#PW Erstfeld
20 101 X Around 600 BC, the Greeks began trading with Celtic-speaking groups in Central Europe. The Celts were farmers, using iron tools, and warfare was common among them. Most lived in villages but there were also hillforts, defended strongholds that were tribal centres, places of refuge and chiefly residences. Dead chiefs were buried under mounds with sumptuous grave goods including wagons.
#PW Early Celts
XX 101 X By about 500 BC, the Greeks, who had previously traded directly with Central European chiefs, shifted their attentions to the Black Sea area. Mediterranean luxuries now reached new areas of barbarian Europe across the Alpine passes. This later trade was more diffuse. Celts themselves often travelled to north Italy, as raiders, traders or mercenaries: some settled there while others returned home with their fine acquisitions.
