Pfostenschlitzmauer

As a post slot wall typical Celtic defense walls are the late Iron Age are known.

The name originated from the archaeological findings in excavations: In the outdoor front of the stone walls vertical recesses are observed at a distance of about 60 centimeters to over a meter. In this formerly stood wooden posts that have gone by and so are detectable only through the gaps or just slots between the sections of the wall front. Spread this wall works are in a fort and a oppida in Celtic settlement area in Central Europe. The Wall itself is a construction of a wooden lattice, which was filled with earth or rubble and debris. The cross member can protrude out of the stone surface likewise. Thus, the post slot walls are closely related to the Celts also attributable Murus - Gallicus walls of Western Europe (France and West Germany ). They are also referred to as type Kelheim, according to the local finds of the late Celtic settlement on the mountain Michel.

When oppidum of Manching a former Murus - Gallicus wall has been replaced by a post slot wall.