Celtic oppidum in České Lhotice

The municipality of České Lhotice consists of three settlements: České Lhotice, Hradiště and Vedralka. In the Hradiště cadastre, a Celtic fortified town, the so-called oppidum, spread over an area of ​​approximately 20 ha. It was a hillfort on a promontory above the Chrudimka River, at an altitude of 430 to 460 m above sea level, protected on three sides by a rampart, the fourth was protected by a steep escarpment above the river, from the second to the first century BC (late...