Lautertal Limes

Soil scientists and geologists thought the strip of land might be a geological discontinuity or an old processional way or a road.

The Kirchheim local historian, Eugen Schweitzer, brought to the table the thesis that the Sibyllenspur was a limes and thus part of the great European network of Roman centuriation.

[2] In the dry summer of July 1976, aerial archaeology by Walter Sölter discovered the fortlet on the hill of Hasenhäuslesberg near Donnstetten.

This was finally confirmed that same year by the then archaeological monument conservationist of the administrative region of Stuttgart, Dieter Planck, who also evaluated the 1976 aerial photographs by Alfred Brugger.

Aerial photographs by Alfred Brugger uncovered another Roman fort behind the limes at Dettingen unter Teck.

Scale drawing representing an artist's impression of the limes defences in the Lautertal