Mysterious Iron Age site may have been a retreat for religious hermits

By James Urquhart

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A itsy-bitsy, mysterious dwelling in the Czech Republic’s Šumava mountains can were a nature retreat for religious hermits 2200 years previously.

At 802 metres, it’s the nation’s perfect Slack Iron Age dwelling, hidden in a wooded space arrive a river in Bohemia. Archaeologists learned it in 2011, the positioning betrayed by an uprooted tree that uncovered pottery fragments from the La Tène culture. But its motive has baffled researchers.

Now, a contemporary excavation hints at …