Heunischenburg

The typical features of a pincer gate and sally port suggest a late Mycenaean influence, so that contacts to the Mediterranean civilisation can be assumed.

The strong, but small fort and the many weapons found distinguish the Heunischenburg clearly from the great centres of settlement of the late Bronze Age.

Two meanings have been proposed: Excavations indicate three periods of settlement: The northeastern flank was guarded by a 2.6-metre-wide, 3.5-metre-high and 110-metre long wall made of sandstone.

The outer wall either side of the gateway approach on the hillside, was 2 metres wide and continued as a 55-metre-long wooden defensive breastwork.

There are also needles, rings, razors, decorative discs, fragments of wrought lead, pieces of swords, lance points and arrowheads.