Hallstatt Salt Mine

• Hallstatt Salt Mine is located near the village of Hallstatt in Austria, which has been active since the Bronze Age.

The Hallstatt Culture

• This is the culture associated with the Celtic, Proto-Celtic and Illyrian peoples who lived and worked in the Salt Mine from the eighth century BCE to the fifth century BCE, the Early European Iron Age.
• A cemetery containing 1,045 burials was excavated in the nineteenth century. Grave Goods from this Period include Iron swords as well as Bronze swords, bodies placed in graves (inhumation) as well as cremation.

Links

• Salt World Hallstatt

Nearby Salt Mines and Cities

• Althaussee Salt Mine
• Salzburg

Hallstatt Salt Mine, Austria