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Cities, villages, fortresses - Aargau - Sulz

Near Sulz, at the locality Rheinsulz, a watchtower on the Rhine was discovered and excavated in 1987 and 1989. It measures 14.70 x 15.20 m., with walls 2.30 m. thick. The skeleton of a man in his fifties was also found, but the burial could not be dated.



View of the remains of the watchtower. Photo: Wikimedia, PantaRhei.



The skeleton of a man. Photo: Hartmann 1991, Abb. 5.


Literature

Drack-Fellmann 1988, 483; Drack-Fellmann 1991, 259; Hartmann 1991; Balmer 1999.


[1-Oct-2023]