Key:site_type
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A typological system for archaeological sites  
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| Group: Historic |
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Status: deprecated
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This feature has been labeled as deprecated. The recommended replacement is: archaeological_site=*.
The reason is documented in Deprecated features. You are still free to continue to use or interpret this tag as you see fit since OpenStreetMap does not have “banned features”.
Under no circumstances should you (semi-)automatically change “deprecated” tags to something else in the database on a large scale without conforming to the automated edits code of conduct. Any such change will be reverted.
The reason is documented in Deprecated features. You are still free to continue to use or interpret this tag as you see fit since OpenStreetMap does not have “banned features”.
Under no circumstances should you (semi-)automatically change “deprecated” tags to something else in the database on a large scale without conforming to the automated edits code of conduct. Any such change will be reverted.
Describes the sub-class of an archaeological site. More information at historic=archaeological_site.
Tagging
Main tag is historic=archaeological_site accompanied with one of the following tags:
Site type
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Other undocumented (suggested) values
| Tag | Alternative Tagging | Description/link/Picture |
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| abbey | Abbey 
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| agora | Agora The central public space in ancient Greek city-states. | |
| agricultural | farm | |
| amphitheatre | An amphitheatre is an open-air venue used for entertainment, performances, and sports, mostly built during the ancient_roman time. | |
| asclepeion | Asclepeion Greek healing temple, (named after Asclepius, the first doctor-demigod in Greek mythology. | |
| barrow | tumulus | barrow |
| boom_gate | ||
| bridge | ||
| broch | Broch. Iron Age drystone hollow-walled round house structure found in Scotland. | |
| building | Some kind of, generally isolated, single former building such as dwelling or barn. For a group of huts or buildings, consider settlement | |
| burial | ||
| burnt_mound | Burnt mound | |
| bushman_paintings | painting with historic:civilization=* | |
| cairn | A cairn is a man-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. 
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| camp | Often used on old UK maps to describe a roman army marching camp. These are usually marked by a low rectangular earth embankment and were often for temporary or semi-temporary use during army fighting campaigns. Care should be used in the UK as these are often mis-identified and re-classified by later archeaologists. | |
| cave | rock_shelter | |
| cemetery | grave_field | See grave_field |
| charcoal_kiln | A permanent structure made of materials such as stone for the controlled burning of wood to produce charcoal. | |
| church | ||
| cliff_dwelling | rock_shelter | Cliff dwelling Dwellings formed by using niches or caves in high cliffs, and sometimes with excavation or additions in the way of masonry. |
| cuniculum_system | ||
| dam | ||
| dendroglyph | carving in the bark of a living tree | |
| deserted_medieval_village | village with historic:civilization=* | |
| desert_kite | Desert kite. Dry stone wall structures. The majority view on their purpose is that they were used as traps for hunting game animals such as gazelles, which were driven into the kites and hunted there. | |
| ditch | ||
| dolmen | megalith with megalith_type=dolmen | Dolmen |
| domus | Domus. Type of Roman house within a city as opposed to a roman_villa in the country. | |
| dun | ||
| earthwork | ||
| earthworks | earthwork | |
| farm | agricultural | |
| fish_salting_factory | An industrial site in the ancient Roman period where fish was salted. | |
| forum | ||
| grave_field | cemetery | A group of one or more human burials. For single burials, consider burial, tumulus, stone_ship, etc. |
| henge | Henge, a Neolithic earthwork structure occuring mostly or exclusively in the UK and Ireland consisting of a ring-shaped bank and ditch, with the ditch inside the bank. | |
| hill_fort | historic=castle with castle_type=* | |
| holy_well | well | |
| industrial | A site of industrial archeaological interest such as an old mill, factory, flint working site, smelting site etc. | |
| landwehr | ||
| long_barrow | barrow with some subttype, rather use megalith with megalith_type=long_barrow | Long barrow, not only stone but wood too. |
| lime_kiln | Lime kiln. Oven structure for creating lime, CaO, usually from limestone rock but sometimes plant material such as bracken. | |
| mass_grave | Mass grave: A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may not be identified prior to burial. Death having often occurred after a pandemic, through war or executions. | |
| medieval_castle | historic=castle with castle_type=* with historic:civilization=* | |
| menhir | megalith with megalith_type=menhir | |
| midden | Midden. A heap made from domestic waste which may consist of animal bone, human excrement, botanical material, mollusc shells, sherds, lithics | |
| military_trench | A trench used for military purposes (shooting) | |
| mine | A place where geological materials are extracted from the Earth. | |
| mineral_extraction | Mineral, rock, stone, gravel, peat extraction by surface quarrying or the surface expression of underground mining such as mine shafts/levels, spoil heaps, buildings | |
| monastery | Site of a religious settlement where monks or nuns live(d). Also referred to in English as abbey, nunnery, priory. | |
| monolith | megalith with megalith_type=*, or man_made=obelisk, or historic=monument with other tags | |
| murus_system | ||
The main type of ancient megalithic edifice found in Sardinia, developed during the nuragic Age. 
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| oppidum | Oppidum. A large fortified Iron Age settlement, usually Celtic, found across Europe. | |
| oracle | ||
| painting | If on rock rock_painting | |
| parking | ||
| prehistoric_fort | historic=castle with castle_type=* with historic:civilization=prehistoric | Stone age, bronze age, iron age fortification. |
| pictogram | rock_painting, petroglyph , painting | Both carved and painted symbols. |
| priory | monastery | |
| quarry | ||
| ridge_and_furrow | lynchets | Ridge and furrow or Lynchet |
| ring_fort | fortification_type=ringfort | |
| ringfort | fortification_type=ringfort | |
| road | ||
| rock_art | possible confusion with pictogram, petroglyph | Maybe defined as a carved rock surface that is also painted. This would separated it from petroglyph and rock_painting |
| rock_painting | painting, possible confusion with petroglyph | A Painting on a rock surface,usually sheltered from the weather. 
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| roman_fort | historic=castle+castle_type=castrum with historic:civilization=ancient_roman/western_roman | |
| roman_road - see also (also undocumented) | road with historic:civilization=ancient_roman/western_roman | |
| roman_wall | wall with historic:civilization=ancient_roman/western_roman | |
| round_barrow | barrow with some subtype | Round barrow, burial covered by a circular mound of earth. Usually Late Neolithic period to the Late Bronze Age but earlier and later examples exist. Common in UK and Scandanavia. If the mound is elongated along one axis, then it is a Long Barrow. |
| ruins | Consider historic=ruins with site_type more descriptive of the function of the site. | |
| sacrificial_site - note: "_site" is superfluous | ||
| sanctuary | A sacred place, such as a shrine. In antiquity, often dedicated to a certain Deity. | |
| shell_midden | midden | |
| standing_stone | megalith with megalith_type=menhir | |
| stone_circle | megalith with megalith_type=stone_circle | A circle of standing stones from large (Stonehenge in UK) to 1m high stones around a diameter of a few meters. |
| stone_row | megalith with megalith_type=alignment | |
| stone_ship | megalith with megalith_type=stone_ship | Stone ship, a distinctive form of burial mostly found in Scandanavia, the Baltics and Northern Germany. The grave was surrounded by slabs or stones in the shape of a ship. |
| tar_pile | ||
| temple | ||
| theatre | ||
| village | settlement | |
| villa | roman_villa | |
| villa_rustica | roman_villa or villa | |
| tomb - | historic=tomb with tomb=* | |
| trap_pit | A pit dug for trapping animals, such as wolves. Common in Sweden as listed historical sites, "varg grop". | |
| wall | ||
| well |
See https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/?key=site_type#values for more values in use.
Non conforming values or evident aliases or typos
Capitals - should use lower case
OSM values should all be lower case.
Bushman_Paintingsto bushman_paintingsWellto wellPetroglyphto petroglyphCrossto cross
Translations
Please use English for site_type=*.
Halomsírok- use mass_grave instead.
Note on status
The archaeological_site=* key was approved as a replacement to this key in December 2022, thereby resulting in site_type=* being deprecated. However, usage of site_type=* remains substantially larger than archaeological_site=* and many data consumers may currently only support the deprecated tagging scheme.