Abri under slab
The Abri Unterkobel is an archaeological site in the municipality of Oberriet ( Canton St. Gallen ) in Switzerland. It was discovered in spring 2011 by the local architect and hobby archaeologist Spallo Kolb and reported to the St. Gallen cantonal archeology. This excavated the site from the summer of the same year and in the following year partially.
It is a rock ledge (so-called Abri ) under which the traces of settlement are located. The sequence of layers is around 4.5 m thick and extends from Roman times to the Mesolithic . The archaeologists uncovered over 20,000 finds at the excavation site in 2011 and 2012.
The site is in a semi-cave in the lower part of a rock wall north of the hamlet of Moos. Unterkobel is a former quarry below the village of Kobelwald and is now used as a landfill. After the archaeological excavations, the site was covered with geotextiles and then filled in again. It is retained for any later examinations.
Web links
- Abri Unterkobel on the homepage of the canton archeology St. Gallen
- The Abri Unterkobel in Oberriet SG - New insights into the history of the Alpine Rhine Valley Fabio Wegmüller, David Brönnimann, Martin P. Schindler at www.oberriet.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ When Oberriet was still in the water, Tagblatt online, article from October 11, 2011
- ^ Landfill bigger and safer Tagblatt online, article from October 23, 2013
- ^ Bringing light into the darkness of time, Thurgauer Zeitung, article from November 29, 2013
Coordinates: 47 ° 18 '56 " N , 9 ° 33' 0.4" E ; CH1903: seven hundred and fifty-nine thousand six hundred and twenty-nine / 242669