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NEW POINT ON THE BUCKET LIST. A CAULDRON WITH CROSS-SHAPED ATTACHMENTS FROM AN IRON AGE GRAVE AT CASTANEDA, CANTON GRISONS, SWITZERLAND

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Baur C., Walser C., Reitmaier T.

Študijné zvesti

2024

vol. 71

issue 2

213 - 239

So far, the Iron Age graveyard of Castaneda in the Val Mesolcina, located in the southern part of the Swiss Canton Grisons, has yielded some 200 graves, dating from between 500 and 150 BC, as well as parts of the associated settlement. Castaneda lies on the north-eastern border of the Alpine region occupied by the Golasecca culture during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages, on an important communication route through the Val Mesolcina. This very old interaction zone connected Northern Italy with the Swiss Plateau and the Alpine Rhine Valley, as far as Lake Constance. In summer 2021, four new graves were uncovered. The grave 1/2021, dating from the end of the Hallstatt period, contained a bronze cauldron with cross-shaped attachments. The entirely preserved vessel belongs to Type C, as defined by Gero v. Merhart. These cauldrons have been discovered in a wide area, stretching from the Balaton region in Hungary to the source of the Seine in France, almost exclusively as a part of high-ranking male grave inventories. The Caput Adriae region is suspected to have been the production centre. The discovery of the Castaneda cauldron is an opportunity to reanalyse the distribution of Type C cauldrons. This may shed some new light on Early Iron Age trade routes and trade networks, while also offering new insights into social hierarchies in the Alpine region of the Golasecca culture during the Early Iron Age.

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NEW POINT ON THE BUCKET LIST. A CAULDRON WITH CROSS-SHAPED ATTACHMENTS FROM AN IRON AGE GRAVE AT CASTANEDA, CANTON GRISONS, SWITZERLAND