Oppidum on Mont Terri
The oppidum on Mont Terri near Cornol in the Swiss canton of Jura is a fortified hilltop settlement from the 2nd half of the 1st century BC. The mountain top of Mont Terri forms a four hectare trapezoidal plateau, which is bordered by steep slopes in the south and west.
The area was already in use in the Neolithic Age . Finds from this period include countless artefacts made of flint and sharpened axes. Due to the finds of pottery shards and a bronze needle with a pyramidal head, it was also used in the 14th century BC. At the end of the Middle Bronze Age . Litter finds from the older Iron Age point to a woman's grave. Even in the Latène period , named after the Swiss town of La Tène , there was already an oppidum here.
Middle of the 1st century BC BC, at the time of the Gallic War , Gaius Julius Caesar 58 BC BC also led against the Helvetii , the settlement burned down. A little later the hill was fortified. A massive wall made of a wooden framework ( Murus Gallicus ) filled with stones and earth and a covering of dry stone , which was vertically reinforced with posts, was built in the north and east. The residents of the settlement left their ceramics (including wine amphorae from Italy), brooches , coins and a bronze Weinsieb . From the 2nd half of the 3rd to the middle of the 4th century AD, a palisade built on the remains of the old rampart surrounded the area. The 4,000 coin finds are from this time. The series of coins ends with the issue of Magnus Decentius (351–353 AD), excluding two coins from the 2nd half of the 4th century.
literature
- P.-A. Black: Le Mont Terri. Archaeological Guide of Switzerland . 26, Porrentruy, 1991
- P.-A. Black: The late Latena and late Roman hillside settlement on Mont Terri (Cornol JU) . In: Basel contributions to prehistory and early history. 1, 3, Derendingen, 1993.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '28.6 " N , 7 ° 9' 40.4" E ; CH1903: five hundred and seventy-nine thousand and fifty-six / 248975