Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)
Arheološko območje Gomile
DatedEst. 1500–1 BCE
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Overview
About this site
Overview
Arheološko območje Gomile is a megalithic mound in Municipality of Križevci, Slovenia. It lies at 46.5421° N, 16.1398° 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.
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Arheološko območje Gomile
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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 regional background, “Central European tumuli”, is given below.
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No scientific date has been published for this site. Monuments of this type in Slovenia are generally dated 1500 BCE to 0 CE; the site itself may fall inside or outside that range.
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.
Setting
21 other recorded monuments lie within 10 km (0 within 1 km, 4 within 5 km), 21 of them of the same type. In Municipality of Križevci, Slovenia, 3 of the 3 recorded monuments are of this type.
The nearest recorded monuments are Gomila (1.4 km north-west, megalithic mound); Tumulus Noršinski Log (2.6 km south-east, megalithic mound); Gomilno grobišče (4.5 km north-west, megalithic mound); Gomilno grobišče Libanja (4.7 km south, megalithic mound).
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Heritage status: monument of local significance.
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
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Lore
Evidence & Lore
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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°32′32″ N, 16°08′23″ EFor a GPS or map app: 46.54210, 16.13979
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)Gomila1500–1 BCE
Tumulus Noršinski Log1500–1 BCE- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Gomilno grobišče1500–1 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Gomilno grobišče Libanja1500–1 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Gomilno grobišče Židovsko Bukovje1500–1 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Rimskodobna gomila1500–1 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Rimska gomila1500–1 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Gomila1500–1 BCE
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Sources
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Compiled from open records (Wikidata, CC0; OpenStreetMap, ODbL) and a regional background article based on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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