Klášťov

Peak · 753 m · Czechia

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Klášťov (753 m) is the highest peak of the Vizovická vrchovina with views south, and an Iron Age hillfort protected since 1958. A marked educational trail by Dr Jiří Kohout circles the summit.

A roughly two-metre sandstone outcrop called Čertův kámen, the Devil's Stone, sits at the summit's highest point, and the mountain is wrapped in local legends. The hillfort dates to the turn of the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages, around 900 to 750 BC, raised by the Lusatian urnfield culture on the plateau still known locally as Zámčisko for its surviving rampart. Centuries later, in the Great Moravian era, the same ramparts were refortified into the highest-positioned Great Moravian stronghold yet identified, and excavations in 2005 and 2006 turned up more than 450 iron artifacts from the site. A spring rises just below the summit. Since 2008, an eight-stop nature trail named for archaeologist Dr Jiří Kohoutek threads through the area, linking the fort, the stone, and the spring.

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