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One or more distinguished people were buried in the typical burial form of the Celtic so-called Hunsrück-Eifel culture from the early to middle La Tène period (approx. 450 to 250 BC). The time is named after the town of La Tène in Switzerland, where iron weapons were found, all of which were decorated with patterns that were common in a new art style that is to be regarded as an essential characteristic of this time. The finds from Kriegshübel (from Gehweiler Mühle uphill to the east) have also been adorned with swirling lines, rings and spirals in this style. It belongs to a burial mound field from the so-called early to middle La Tène period, approx. 450 to 250 BC. This is distributed in groups to the right and left of the further path down the hill and over the surrounding hills. The associated settlement could not yet be located. Due to the intensive agricultural tillage of the last two centuries almost all barrows were destroyed and leveled. In 1903 the Hirsteiner local researcher Friedrich Hamm opened two still undisturbed burial mounds almost scientifically and handed over the revealing finds to the museum in Birkenfeld, where they can still be viewed today. Source: Text information board