Ipf (mountain)
Template:Short description Template:Infobox mountain The Ipf is a mostly treeless mountain (Script error: No such module "convert". high), near Bopfingen, Ostalbkreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, with a prehistoric hill fort on its top.
The fort is situated on an isolated hill, with a flattened summit surrounded by a stone wall, ditch and large counterscarp (outer bank). The overall diameter is about Script error: No such module "convert".. Extensive ramparts traverse the slopes to protect a large enclosed area and entranceway. There is evidence of occupation from the Bronze Age (Urnfield culture) through the Iron Age to the early Celtic La Tene period, a span of almost a thousand years (1200 BC – 300 BC).[1] The summit was already levelled, fortified and densely settled in the Urnfield period.[2][3] During the early Iron Age Hallstatt period and into the early La Tène period the Ipf was an important 'princely seat' – a regional centre of power and aristocratic residence with long-distance trade connections, including with Greece and Italy.[4]
Gallery
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Ipf mountain
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View showing remains of fortifications
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Aerial view
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Remains of fortifications
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Remains of fortifications
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Remains of fortifications
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Diagram of fortifications
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Reconstructed fortification wall/ rampart of the early La Tene period (5th century BC)
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Reconstruction of rampart and building (left)
See also
- Urnfield culture
- Hallstatt culture
- La Tene culture
- Heuneburg
- Hochdorf Chieftain's Grave
- Hohenasperg
- Glauberg
- Vix Grave
- Burgstallkogel
- Ipf bei Bopfingen German-language wikipedia page with more information
- Alte Burg (Langenenslingen)
- Magdalenenberg
- Lavau Grave
- Oppidum of Manching
External links
- Mount Ipf in southern Germany. The fortification, spatial organization and territory of a “Princely Seat” of the Early Iron Age (Krause 2021)
- Crossing the Alps: Early Urbanism between Northern Italy and Central Europe (900-400 BC), Edited by Lorenzo Zamboni, Manuel Fernández-Götz & Carola Metzner-Nebelsick (2020) Includes a visual reconstruction of the Ipf hillfort.
- Digital animation/ reconstruction of the Ipf hillfort
- Ipf
References
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