Ramelen

Ramelen is a now wooded Jura rib above the Sonnenhalde on the foothills northwest of Egerkingen in the Swiss canton of Solothurn . Theodor Schweizer's excavations, inspired by a local legend about a destroyed castle, brought to light the remains of a Neolithic settlement fortified with ramparts and moats with several residential pits on Ramelen from 1925 , which is assigned to the Horgen culture and corded ceramics .

Most of the tools and arrowheads that were found are made of locally occurring fire stone or chert , some also made of green stone or quartz , including two small lamellas made of rock crystal. Granite and sandstone were used as grinding stones on site ; a hand mill base is also made of granite. The ceramic finds show only a few traces of decoration.

literature

Eugen Tatarinoff, Ramelen ob Egerkingen. A fortification from the Younger Stone Age , in: Festschrift für Walther Merz , Aarau 1928, pp. 80-95.

Individual evidence

^ Jörg Biel, Prehistoric hilltop settlements in southern Württemberg and Hohenzollern , Stuttgart 1987, p. 167.
^ Benno Schubiger, Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons Solothurn: Die Stadt Solothurn I , Basel 1994, p. 2.

47.32462 7.78246Coordinates: 47 ° 19 '28.6 " N , 7 ° 46' 56.9" E ; CH1903: 625993 / 241585

[1] Jörg Biel, Prehistoric hilltop settlements in southern Württemberg and Hohenzollern , Stuttgart 1987, p. 167.

[2] Benno Schubiger, Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons Solothurn: Die Stadt Solothurn I , Basel 1994, p. 2.