Tinnumburg
Tinnumburg stands near Tinnum on Sylt, Germany, as the best-preserved of the island’s three ancient ring forts. Grassy land surrounds the broad circular rampart on Sylt. Its earthwork measures about 120 metres across, rises up to seven metres, and extends roughly 440 metres around.
Built around the birth of Christ, the fort belongs to the early Roman period and served as a Germanic place of worship. Excavations took place in 1870, 1948, and 1976. After abandonment, the interior gained sod-wall houses between the eighth and tenth centuries, while the visible rampart covered the earlier one.
A tidal creek once reached the Wadden Sea northwest of the fort, while marshland spread southeast toward possible Viking Age sea access. At least two gates opened east and south. A possible western gate led toward a plateau beside Döplem Lake.
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