EEN 'INKIJKOPERATIE' IN DE WIERDE HEVESKES (GR.)
Samenvatting
In October 1994 a rescue excavation was carried out on the wierde (dwelling mound) of the former village of Heveskes. The northern edge had been levelled up to 1,50 m without any archaeological supervision. The excavation had to be limited to a trench of 53 X 9 m which was taken down in seven stages. The interim conclusion is that the habitation of the northern edge started in the 8th/9th century on two raised, probably individual house-sites which extended from the nucleurwierde. At the western site the ends of two sodwalled houses without posts of different ages were found. Between the two house-sites, the middle part of a shed with ridge-supporting posts and without sod walls was located, which dated from the time when the raised extensions fused. The oldest pottery sherds, found at the original surface of the salt marsh, surviving from the beginning of our era. The author suggests a definite and better statutary protection of the wierde, including the already levelled grounds, because of the important archaeological evidence contained in both.