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    A Pfostenschlitzmauer (German for "post-slot wall") is the name for defensive walls protecting Bronze Age and Iron Age hill forts and oppida in Central...
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    in Central Europe, used earth, stone and timber posts to form a Pfostenschlitzmauer or "post-slot wall". Vitrified ramparts were composed of stone that...
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    wall was rebuilt in the pfostenschlitzmauer style. The murus gallicus contrasts with other construction styles: Pfostenschlitzmauer – characterised by upright...
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    Czech Republic. The predominant form of rampart construction was pfostenschlitzmauer, or Kelheim-style. During the Hallstatt C period, hillforts became...
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    Reconstruction of a Late Celtic Pfostenschlitzmauer on the Staffelberg, 2010...
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    dominating traffic on the river. Kelheim has given its name to the pfostenschlitzmauer style of rampart construction characterized by vertical wooden posts...
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    sectional wall-and-moat defences. All the walls followed the same pfostenschlitzmauer design: tree trunks of roughly 60 cm diameter were pushed into the...
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    gridded timbers filled with stones or soil or plank and palisade type pfostenschlitzmauer fortifications were used. Other fortified settlements used river-bends...
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    were often used to support the earth and stone ramparts, called Pfostenschlitzmauer (post slot wall) or "Preist-type wall".: 25  In western Europe, especially...
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    northeast, east and south. Ch. L. Thomas identified the wall as a pfostenschlitzmauer in 1906.: 374  An inner wall surrounded the 450 metres (1,476 ft)...
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  • ultra-low energy buildings which need little fuel for heating or cooling Pfostenschlitzmauer, in archeology, a method of construction typical of prehistoric Celtic...
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    army, in the cohortes Raetorum et Vindelicorum. Oppidum of Manching Pfostenschlitzmauer Viereckschanze Horace. Carm., 4:4:17–18, 14:7–9. Strabo. Geōgraphiká...
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    with ditches and walls up to 8 m thick. The walls were built in the Pfostenschlitzmauer technique, but also yielded nails of the type common in murus gallicus...
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    protected by formidable earthworks as well as the Murus Gallicus and Pfostenschlitzmauer constructions. The larger settlements in Gaul were described by Julius...
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    was erected around 104 BC as a Pfostenschlitzmauer incorporating the old wall within its body. The Pfostenschlitzmauer technique was also used for a third...
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    Szolnok. After the 1526 Battle of Mohács this was expanded to a Pfostenschlitzmauer, and later a stone fortress in the face of Szolnok's key position...
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  • depths and profiles of ditches. Rampart construction: murus gallicus, pfostenschlitzmauer. Guardhouses and defended entrances. Settlement and occupation Raised...
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    fortress of Căpâlna, Romania Davae Hill fort Murus gallicus Oppidum Pfostenschlitzmauer Murus Dacicus in 3D at RomaniaDeVis.ro, 3D reconstruction (v.1) A...
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    apart from a few remains (hence the reason it is sometimes called a Pfostenschlitzmauer or "post-slot wall"), the height of the original wall can only be...
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  • Hungarian and the Ottoman Armies crossed the village. There was built a Pfostenschlitzmauer here. Temporally it was an inhabited region during the Ottoman rule...
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    during the late Hallstatt period (700 to 450 BC). The inner wall (a Pfostenschlitzmauer) was built during this time. It likely had a fortified gate to the...
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    during the late Hallstatt period (700 to 450 BC). The inner wall (a Pfostenschlitzmauer) was built during this time. It likely had a fortified gate to the...
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