An early medieval hillfort in the forest near Białogórze, with an adjoining cemetery of around 167 burial mounds.
Białogóra Hillfort is an early medieval archaeological complex in the forest east of the village of Białogórze, next to national road 352 linking Zgorzelec with Jelenia Góra. The complex consists of two hillforts and an adjoining barrow cemetery.
The hillfort has an oval shape, with outer dimensions of 40 by 32 metres. The defensive rampart reaches 1 to 2.7 metres in height on the inner courtyard side and 1 to 3 metres on the outer side. The site was in use between the 8th and the 10th or 11th century.
The adjoining barrow cemetery has around 167 mounds with diameters of 4 to 8 metres. It was used in two phases: from the 7th to the 8th century and from the 9th to the 10th century. Archaeological research on the mounds was carried out between 1968 and 1979, during which 22 of them were examined.
The barrows were discovered in the summer of 1929 by Dr Otto F. Gandert of Zgorzelec. The hillfort itself was already known to researchers in the 19th century; amateur research was carried out there in 1932-1933, and surface surveys have been conducted since 1967. Work on the whole complex is continued by researchers from the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences and the Saxon Office for Archaeological Heritage Conservation in Dresden.
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