Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)
Arheološko območje gomil
DatedEst. 1500–1 BCE
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Overview
About this site
What the sources say
Arheološko območje gomil is a megalithic mound in Municipality of Velika Polana, Slovenia. In open records it appears as Wikidata item Q60346029, mapped at 46.5884° N, 16.3625° E.
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Where it sits in time
The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.
The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
The full article
About Arheološko območje gomil
This kind of monument hereSources for this section
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Central Europe has a long sequence of burial mounds. The Unetice culture of the Early Bronze Age came first, and the Tumulus culture of the Middle Bronze Age, about 1600 to 1300 BCE, raised mounds across Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland and neighbouring regions. The Hallstatt culture of the Early Iron Age made the mound grand again. From the Hallstatt B phase, tumulus burial becomes common, and the Hallstatt period proper, 800 to 450 BCE, produced the "princely" graves of elites who lived in fortified hilltop centres. The full article, “Central European tumuli”, follows below under About this kind of monument.
DatingSources for this section
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The Atlas shows 1500 BCE to 0 CE for this site, but that is a regional estimate for this kind of monument, not a date for this particular megalithic mound. No excavation, radiocarbon sample or other measurement is recorded for it, so the real age could fall anywhere within the range, or outside it.
The range rests on this regional background (source: the Wikipedia article “Tumulus”): The gomila of the karst are prehistoric structures built in the 2nd and 1st millennia BC from the middle Bronze Age to the end of the Iron Age; a few are Roman-period.
Landscape and neighbours
Within 10 km lie 15 other catalogued sites (0 within 1 km, 5 within 5 km); 15 of them are also classed as megalithic mound. It is one of 1 megalithic mound records among the 1 sites catalogued in Municipality of Velika Polana, Slovenia.
Nearest to it are Gomilno grobišče (1.5 km north, megalithic mound); Gomila (3.8 km south-east, megalithic mound); Gomilno grobišče Popov log (4.4 km north-west, megalithic mound); Gomilno grobišče Ob Ginji (4.6 km north, megalithic mound). The catalogue is assembled from open records and is not complete, so unrecorded monuments may lie closer.
Records and protectionSources for this section
Sources for this section
Wikidata lists the site with the heritage status monument of local significance. The open records for it are Wikidata (Q60346029), where corrections and further identifiers can be added. Sites of this kind often lie on farmland or other private ground, so check local access rules before visiting and leave the monument as you found it.
How this page was madeSources for this section
Sources for this section
This page was built automatically from Wikidata (CC0), the heritage register named above and the regional article “Central European tumuli”, written for the Atlas from the Wikipedia articles it cites (CC BY-SA 4.0), plus distances and counts computed from the catalogue coordinates. It contains no AI-written text.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Central European tumuli
Central Europe has a long sequence of burial mounds. The Unetice culture of the Early Bronze Age came first, and the Tumulus culture of the Middle Bronze Age, about 1600 to 1300 BCE, raised mounds across Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland and neighbouring regions. The Hallstatt culture of the Early Iron Age made the mound grand again. From the Hallstatt B phase, tumulus burial becomes common, and the Hallstatt period proper, 800 to 450 BCE, produced the "princely" graves of elites who lived in fortified hilltop centres.
The largest Hallstatt-period mound in Central Europe is the Magdalenenberg near Villingen-Schwenningen. Its central tomb, of an early Celtic prince, has been dated by tree rings to 616 BCE. The mound once stood 10 to 12 metres high with a diameter of 104 metres; 126 further graves were set in concentric rings around it in the decades after the prince's death, and about 500 BCE the central chamber was plundered by robbers whose wooden spades archaeologists later found. Folklore marks it too: in the 1640s, during a series of witch trials, several women confessed under torture to dancing with the devil on the Magdalenenberg. That is evidence of a belief, not of any event.
The Atlas's records in Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia are mostly tumuli of this Bronze Age and Iron Age sequence, and most are dated only by their form.
When visiting, look for mounds grouped in a cemetery rather than alone, since families and communities buried together, and for ploughed-down circular rises in fields.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Tumulus culture, Wikipedia: Hallstatt culture, Wikipedia: Magdalenenberg, Wikipedia: Unetice culture, Wikipedia: Tumulus · CC BY-SA 4.0
See it in 3D
An interpretive reconstruction of the monument, standing on the real ground at its exact point, under the sun for that place and season. Drag to look around it.
The reconstruction is ours, not a survey: it shows what a monument of this type looks like, at the size the record gives for this one.
Lore
Evidence & Lore
What the sources actually support — and, kept apart, what has been claimed.
What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 1500–1 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for megalithic mounds in Slovenia; this site has not been dated itself. The gomila of the karst are prehistoric structures built in the 2nd and 1st millennia BC from the middle Bronze Age to the end of the Iron Age; a few are Roman-period.Source for this date
Where it stands
Slovenia
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 46°35′18″ N, 16°21′45″ EFor a GPS or map app: 46.58838, 16.36254
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Gomilno grobišče1500–1 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Gomila1500–1 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Gomilno grobišče Popov log1500–1 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Gomilno grobišče Ob Ginji1500–1 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Gomilno grobišče Poseka1500–1 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Gomila1500–1 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Gomilno grobišče Čepeleš1500–1 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Gomilno grobišče Suhi jarek1500–1 BCE
Sources
Every record behind this page, with the link it came from.
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- 01Wikidata Q60346029wikidata.org
- 02Source for this dateen.wikipedia.org
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Around this place
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Credit
Text, licence and sources
This page is assembled from open records (Wikidata, CC0; OpenStreetMap, ODbL) and a tradition article paraphrasing Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). No article exists for this site, and nothing here is written by a model.
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