House floor plans from Klein Bünstorf
The house floor plans of Klein Bünstorf were discovered and excavated near Bünstorf, a district of Bad Bevensen in the Uelzen district in Lower Saxony . They were located in the “Flur Kiebitzmoor” on the northern edge of a much older burial mound field from the period between 1500 and 600 BC. On the shore terrace of the Ilmenau . With 59 graves under forest and heather, the burial ground is one of the larger in the Lüneburg Heath .
description
The settlement from the Roman Empire (1–375 AD) and the Migration Period (375–568 AD) could be dated through the ceramic . Two east-west oriented house floor plans were completely exposed. A characteristic of both buildings is the apsidal formation of one of their narrow sides. The opposite parallel, but staggered, buildings are unusually close together, so they form an ensemble . The length of the completely preserved house floor plan is 23 m with a width of 6.8 m. The outer walls, probably made of planks, stood out clearly as dark wall trenches in the light-colored soil. A roughly 1.5 m deep anteroom the width of the house was clearly visible on the straight narrow side through a row of closely placed posts. The buildings each had several entrances and a ridge post construction for the roof.
The roof on the semicircular narrow side was designed as a round hip. Fireplaces and other post pits were uncovered within the building's floor plan , indicating an at least partial structure. Gray-brown surface discoloration suggests a plank floor in some rooms. Further post holes in the excavated area are occupied by other buildings that cannot be reconstructed and on the side of House II a large oven made of rolling stones . a. the fragment of a perforated millstone lay. The buildings did not have a stable part and otherwise they differ significantly from the contemporary residential buildings.
literature
- Heinz Schirnig : On the dating of the house floor plans from Klein Bünstorf, Uelzen district In: Die Kunde NF 22 1971 pages 57–72.
- Claus Ahrens: The Iron Age House Floor Plans in the Harburg Area In: Hammaburg NF 1; 1974 pages 77-92.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 3 ′ 32 " N , 10 ° 35 ′ 14" E