Kleinaspergle

Kleinaspergle is an early La Tène burial mound north of Hohenasperg, in Baden-Württemberg. In 1879, the mound was excavated by Oscar Fraas. Two burial chambers were uncovered. The main chamber had been plundered in the Middle Ages and was not able to be investigated, but the side chamber was untouched.

Fraas was able to uncover several valuable artefacts from this chamber, the burial chamber of a high-status person, perhaps a woman.

The artifacts uncovered attest to the scale of cultural transfer possible in Central Europe of the period (with Etruscan and Greek artifacts represented) and, furthermore, they illustrate how Mediterranean material culture was embraced and adapted by Celtic elites and early La Tène craftsmen of the fifth/fourth century B.C.