Berichte der Kommission für Archäologische Landesforschung in Hessen e.V. / Berichte der Kommission für Archäologische Landesforschung in Hessen e.V. 2018/2019 / Symposium zum Umgang mit montanarchäologischen Relikten durch die hessische Bodendenkmalpflege

During the development of a regional scheme for Central Hesse in 2003 an area in the far Eastern Taunus Mountains was found surprisingly void of finds, although hillforts and barrow cemeteries were known. After extensive surveys, the zone has been recognised as a specialised mining area of outstanding preservation and roots possibly going back to the Iron Age Celts. It now stands in one line with the Lahn-Dill Area, the Southern Hessian Odenwald Mountains and the Northern Hessian copper deposits. In order to improve the standing of Hessian Monument Preservation Authorities with regard to this, a symposium was held in Reichelsheim in October 2017, nine papers of which are presented here. They deal with the cultural landscape at Lahn and Dill, mining archaeology in Baden-Württemberg, mining archaeological remains in forests, cartography and databases on ore deposits in Hesse, caves to the surface and sinkholes in the Odenwald, LiDAR- and GIS-based surveys of iron ore mining at Eppertshausen, geological and surface mapping as methods of mining archaeology, a new approach to inventarisation of mining relicts, and guidelines to underground documentation and excavation.