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Celtic Burial Mounds Ellscheid

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Celtic Burial Mounds Ellscheid

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Celtic Burial Mounds Ellscheid

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Location: Ellscheid, Vulkaneifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Sabine 🦁

November 8, 2020

There are several Celtic barrows at this point, and there may have been a Celtic settlement in this area.
In the background of the "village tour sign" you can see a number of clear elevations, smaller and larger.

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

April 5, 2022

"... Clear signs of what might have been the first permanent settlement in the area are the Celtic burial mounds around Ellscheid ('Starkenbruch', 'Rothreiser', 'Jungholz', 'Hügelchen'). The graves date from the early Iron Age, the Hallstatt period in the 7th th century BC The most famous monument of the Celts in our region is the ring wall on the Steineberger Ley about 4 km from Ellscheid.
From about 400 BC the Celts migrate south. The Treveri tribe remains behind. About 20 BC the Romans invade. The Eifel belongs to the province of Belgica with the capital Trier.
The Franks, a Germanic tribe, penetrated into the Eifel via the Roman roads in the 5th century AD. Roman rule comes to an end. A dense settlement only starts again from about 900 AD. Hedelscheit/Ellscheid will also have come about during this phase. ..."
+++ CONTINUED and FURTHER INFORMATION:
ellscheid-vulkaneifel.de/content/80/44/kultur/geschichte

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Location: Ellscheid, Vulkaneifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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