Burnt offerings site on the Piller Sattel

The culture on the Piller began in the Bronze Age: animals were sacrificed to the gods on stone altars. In the later Iron Age, sacrifices in kind (jewellery, coins, ceramics, fibulae and weapons) were intended to please the gods. The cult site came to an end with the spread of Christianity. The archaeological museum in Fliess exhibits finds from the Bronze Age/Iron Age burnt offering site and Roman cult site on the Piller Sattel and the Hallstatt bronze site from Fliess.

Hike from Piller on the KULT UR WEG to the prehistoric burnt offering site and to the nearby ‘Gachen Blick’, from where you can enjoy a unique, interesting and far-reaching view. The burnt offering site was excavated and developed by the Institute for Classical Archaeology at the University of Innsbruck between 1992 and 1998.