Kleinaspergle
Kleinaspergle is an early La Tène culture, La Tène burial mound north of Hohenasperg, in Baden-Württemberg. In 1879, the mound was excavated by Oscar Fraas. Two burial chambers were uncovered. The main chamber had been plundered in the Middle Ages and was not able to be investigated, but the side chamber was untouched. Fraas was able to uncover several valuable artefacts from this chamber, the burial chamber of a high-status person, perhaps a woman. The artefacts uncovered attest to the scale of cultural transfer possible in Central Europe at this time (with Etruscan civilisation, Etruscan and Ancient Greece, Greek artefacts represented) and, furthermore, how Mediterranean material culture was embraced and adapted by Celts, Celtic elites and early La Tène craftsmen. Excavation and identity of those buried Kleinaspergle lies 1km north of the hillfort Hohenasperg. The burial mound is 7.5m tall and 60m in diameter. Excavations have revealed that the barrow originally had a l ...
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