Gamsen

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Postal Code: CH-3900
Canton: Wallis
Country: Switzerland
Coordinates: 46° 18' 13.33" N, 7° 57' 4.10" E
Website: search for "Gamsen" on it.wikipedia.org

Field names: Waldmatte
Objects: VS·3 Gamsen (unknown)


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Commentary

The (pre-)historic settlement of Gamsen, located at the sites Bildacker, Breitenweg, Waldmatte and Kridenfluh on the south-eastern border of the modern village and settled since the late Bronze age, has been excavated between 1988 and 1999 after sporadic finds from the 19th and 20th century; the material has been and is still being published in a six-volume collaborative work entitled L'habitat de Gamsen (in Cahiers d'archéologie romande). On the archaeological finds see Paccolat et al. 2019; overview of the sites and chronology p. 27–31.

Corinna Salomon

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