sentences:  The Etschberg area was settled in both prehistoric and Gallo-Roman times, bearing witness to which are local archaeological finds.These mainly take the shape of the Iron Age barrows below the Kreuzberg's peak within Schellweiler's municipal limits, another in the cadastral area called Winterhell within Kusel’s limits, the cremation graveyard within Haschbach's limits and finds from Roman times, foremost those unearthed in and around the neighbouring town of Kusel.Etschberg was founded at an unknown time, at least 200 years before its thus far first known documentary mention from 1364.