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EEN VERKENNEND ONDERZOEK OP DE WESTAKKERS TE DALEN (DR.)

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  • P.B. Kooi
  • G. Delger
  • K. Klaassens

Samenvatting

From 30 April to 28 May 1989 a housing development are a (Westakkers) near the village of Dalen was partly excavated to gain more information about settlement patterns in the past. A network of trenches was explored and they revealed traces of different periods, viz. an Iron Age cemetery and settlement traces, a large granary and a severely dis­turbed house plan from the Roman period and finally settlement traces from the 7th-8th century. These were obviously part of a farmstead, with plans of two houses, two barns, three sunken huls, and foundation trenches for hurdle fences. It looks as if the oldest buildings C (house) and D (barn) were once renewed: B (house) and A (barn). The three six-post sunken huts belong to one of these phases. lt is clear that a larger, complex settle­ment did not develop, either in the Roman period or in the Early Middle Ages. This is remarkable since this did occur in Wijster and Odoorn during the same time.

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1989-12-15

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