Living in the Rhine-
Meuse delta during the
Middle Bronze Age
1500-1050 BC
The Eigenblok House Site
Peter Jongste
Hazenberg Archeologie Leiden
1. Introduction
2. The Rhine-Meuse Delta
3. The Bronze Age in the RMD
4. Eigenblok:
-Setting and location
-House site 5
-Long house and
outbuilding
-Activities and use
THIS
PRESENTATION
Middle Bronze Age:
1800-1050 BC
INTRODUCTION
Regions Middle Bronze Age sites
THE RHINE-MEUSE DELTA
(CENTRAL RIVER AREA)
Early Bronze Age and Middle Bronze Age (2000-1300 BC.)
Middle Bronze Age (final phase 1300-1050 BC.)
Middle Bronze Age sites
Wijk bij Duurstede
Dodewaard Zijderveld
Eigenblok
Setting and location
EIGENBLOK
Site 5
Site 6
Site 4
Site 3 Site 2
Site 1
EIGENBLOK
HOUSE SITE 5
longhouse
“bus shelter”
well
granaries
palissade
barrow
pits
Eigenblok site 5
1st phase: LN-EBA barrow
(around 2000 BC)
2nd phase: setting up MBA
house site around 1500 BC
House site in use for 30-60 yrs
1-2 generations
Durability of wood: Oak 25-30 yrs
Eigenblok: Alder - 5-15 yrs
Prevention, shelter, repair?
- Longhouses
- Focus on cattle
- Indoor stalling
- Fences & field boundaries
- Well defined farmsteads
- Association with barrow
(dated from LN-EBA)
House: central element of house-site
Size house site: 50 x 50 m
Regularity and “sudden” introduction
around 1500 BC
5m0
Site 5, af b 3.27Huisplattegrond v an huis 1, schaal 1:200Diepte v an de palen schaal 1:100, t.o.v . 0,78 +NAP
EBL_S&S_af b3_27.WOR
EIGENBLOK
LONGHOUSE & OUTBUILDING
10m0
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EBL_S&S_af b3_28.WOR
af b3.28, Site 5Plattegronden v an de bijgebouwen schaal 1;200Diepte v an de palen schaal 1:100
structuur 1 diepte van de palenaangegevne t.o.v. 0,69 +NAP
structuur 7diepte van de palenaangegevne t.o.v. 0,56 +NAP
structuur 6diepte van de palenaangegevne t.o.v. 0,55 +NAP
structuur 5 diepte van de palenaangegevne t.o.v. 0,71 +NAP
structuur 4diepte van de palenaangegevne t.o.v. 0,61 +NAP
structuur 3 diepte van de palenaangegevne t.o.v. 0,67 +NAP
structuur 2 diepte van de palenaangegevne t.o.v. 0,70 +NAP
Gewicht in grammen per segment
2.020 to 6.180820 to 2.020260 to 820
0 to 260
Site 5, af b 3.23Verspreiding v an de v ondsten per segment
10m0
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EBL_S&S_af b3_23
EIGENBLOK
ACTIVITIES & USE
Foot steps on the dance floor…
Now: building Eigenblok in practice
by Leo Wolterbeek