Abstract
THE site in Moravia known to archaeologists as Pfedmost actually is, or was, a small hill to the west of the little village of Pf edmosti, which lies about two kilometres north of Pferov, a junction on the Central European fine between Warsaw and Vienna. The hill rose to a height of forty metres above the marshy plain, and was known locally as “Hradisko” (oppidum), evidently having served the inhabitants as a place of refuge in time of war. The substructure of the hill consisted of two limestone rocks joined by a saddle of yellow brick-earth, or loess. The complete quarrying away of one of these rocks many years ago has exposed the face of the loess, and at the base level of the rock in a band of darker deposit have been found relics of prehistoric man in such a quantity and of such a character as to justify the verdict that this is one of the most important palaeolithic sites ever discovered.
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Archæological Discoveries at Pedmost. Nature 138, 104–106 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138104a0
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