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    Murus gallicus or Gallic wall is a method of construction of defensive walls used to protect Iron Age hillforts and oppida of the La Tene period in Western...
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  • Murus Gallicus (Latin for "Gallic Wall") is an abstract strategy game created in 2009 by Phil Leduc. The name Murus Gallicus is a reference to the stone...
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    fortifications were built on an immense scale. Construction of the 7km-long murus gallicus at Manching required an estimated 6,900 m3 of stones for the façade...
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    type Reverse view Pfostenschlitzmauer-type fortification wall Murus Dacicus Murus Gallicus Urnfield culture Hallstatt culture Wikimedia Commons has media...
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    thirty thousand inhabitants, protected by a huge stone wall of the Murus Gallicus type which enclosed an area of 135 hectares. The origin of the word...
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    Dacian fortress of Căpâlna, Romania Davae Hill fort Murus gallicus Oppidum Pfostenschlitzmauer Murus Dacicus in 3D at RomaniaDeVis.ro, 3D reconstruction...
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    kilometres long, which was built by the Celts around 500 B. C. as a type of Murus Gallicus but was pulled down again not long afterwards. The wooden elements of...
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    fortification took the form of a classic Celtic wood-and-earth wall (murus gallicus), replaced regularly. Around 600 BC, this was replaced by a structure...
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    bank, he discovered the remains of a wall, which he described as a murus gallicus according to Julius Caesar's description of such structures. Due to...
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    site was originally surrounded by 10 m high, reinforced ramparts of Murus Gallicus type, with fortified doors at either end of the main road through the...
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    city wall Citadel Glacis Medieval fortification Mural crown Murus Dacicus Murus Gallicus Talus (fortification) Caves, R. W. (2004). Encyclopedia of the...
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    from the oppidum, which was abandoned after the fort was completed. Murus Gallicus Augusta Raurica Blake Wiener, James (2018-09-14). "Augusta Raurica"...
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    Manching oppidum Bibracte oppidum, France, outer walls Bibracte oppidum Murus Gallicus Oppidum illustration. Tintignac sanctuary, France Corent oppidum, France...
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    Bibracte, a Gaulish oppidum, showing the construction technique known as murus gallicus. Oppida were large fortified settlements used during the Iron Age....
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    6m-wide wall surrounding the plateau of the Ehrenbürg resembled later murus gallicus fortifications known from the Iron Age. 'Cyclopean' stone fortifications...
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    the eastern and western extremities.: 32  It was protected by a wall (murus gallicus) enclosing an area of up to 140 hectares, pierced by at least two pincer...
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    Gallic Murus Gallicus, Lyon, La Tène culture...
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    Pfostenschlitzmauer technique, but also yielded nails of the type common in murus gallicus walls. Excavation inside the enclosure revealed a variety of buildings...
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    multivallate fortresses, protected by formidable earthworks as well as the Murus Gallicus and Pfostenschlitzmauer constructions. The larger settlements in Gaul...
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  • ditches Original depths and profiles of ditches. Rampart construction: murus gallicus, pfostenschlitzmauer. Guardhouses and defended entrances. Settlement...
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    (in French). L'Archéologue. ISSN 1255-5932. Monin, Michèle (2015). Le murus gallicus de Lyon (Rhône) (PDF) (in French). Bulletin de l'Association Française...
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    a sea promontory hillfort based on a Gaulish oppidum, with a linear murus gallicus rampart. It was used as refuge by the Osismii Gauls against the Roman...
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    outer walls, La Tène culture Gallic farm at Verberie, La Tène culture Murus Gallicus, c. 100 BC, La Tène culture Corent oppidum, La Tène culture Settlement...
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  • København Logo Board Game The Magic Labyrinth Malifaux Monopoly City Murus Gallicus My First Carcassonne Mythgardia Reminiscing:21st Century Edition Sector...
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    a Celtic defence wall (Murus Gallicus). Gold hoard from Trassem Drinking horn decoration Brooch from Weiskirchen Murus Gallicus model Roman sculpture takes...
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    Iron Age building traditions, instead of being associated with the Murus Gallicus structures of the late La Tene fortifications of continental Europe...
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    fortified with walls. The walling techniques included drystone walling, the murus gallicus (a typical Celtic technique of wood and stone) and perhaps also mudbrick...
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    residential buildings were constructed: one using the ancient technique of murus gallicus. This building of 30 Sq. M is surrounded by a gallery on two sides,...
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    Design of a Celtic defensive wall. (See: Murus Gallicus)...
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  • cap and revetments (retaining walls), which Varley compared with the murus gallicus method of construction, typical of Gaul. An outer revetment protected...
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