The Hallstatt Cemetery and its Documentation: Some New Evidence

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1758-5309|56|2|159-176

ISSN: 0003-5815

Source: Antiquaries Journal, Vol.56, Iss.2, 1976-09, pp. : 159-176

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Abstract

The most copious and important finds from the famous Iron Age cemetery at Hallstatt were excavated by J. G. Ramsauer between 1846 and 1863. Doubts have been expressed about the validity of grave associations accepted on his authority. This paper discusses some of the evidence that is available for assessing Ramsauer's methods of excavation and recordings and for establishing valid grave associations. Key documents are a series of manuscript accounts of the excavations, the ‘Protokolle’ (one of which was presented to the Library of the Society of Antiquaries), and a later working catalogue which survives in the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna.