Bas-Vully oppidum
The Celtic oppidum of Bas-Vully in the lake district of the canton of Friborg in Switzerland is located on Mont Vully (German: Wistenlacherberg). The facility built by the Helvetians was built in the 2nd half of the 2nd century BC. Until the 1st half of the 1st century BC Used for about 100 years. The Oppidum of Bas-Vully extends over 50 hectares, of which only about 200 m were explored by excavation.
On a western spur of Mont Vully there is an entrenchment consisting of two straight walls. The core of the ramparts consisted of earth that came from the ditch dug on the valley side. Outside, a dry stone wall was piled up from hewn stones , in which oak posts served as scaffolding. The original height of the wall, which is a variant of Murus Gallicus , is estimated to be five meters.
The other wall had two pincer gates ; the foundations of two towers have been excavated. Next to one of them a line had been cut into the Molasse rock. Apart from a pit and a piece of a hut floor, there is no clue as to its interior layout.
The burned down facility was probably destroyed in the course of the attempted emigration of the Helvetii from their inhabitants in 58 BC. Abandoned at the same time as other settlements in this region. After Gaius Julius Caesar's forced return of the Helvetii after the Battle of Bibracte , a new one was built in place of the oppidum on Mont Vully near Avenches .
The southern corner of the Zangentor on the Wistenlacherberg was reconstructed in natural size.
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reconstruction
literature
- Gilbert Kaenel and Philippe Curdy: The Wistenlacher Oppidum (Mont-Vully) . Association Pro Vistiliaco, Sugiez 1988. (Archaeological Guide of Switzerland, 23).
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Coordinates: 46 ° 57 '47 " N , 7 ° 5' 33.4" E ; CH1903: 573665 / 201 388