Bronze Age settlement near Niedermuschütz
| Place: | Niedermuschütz (Diera-Zehren, Meissen) |
|---|---|
| Type: | Settlement |
| Dating: | older Lusatian culture | 1350 - 1000 BC. |
Description
In 2003, north-east of the village of Niedermuschütz, parts of a Bronze Age house were uncovered on a terraced high bank of the Elbe in the area of a market garden. The site had been known since 1972 due to surface finds. The site is located about 1 km southwest of the Göhrisch redoubt, which was built around the same time. There are also individual finds of sherds from the Linear Pottery culture and the Late Middle Ages.
Annemarie ReckFindings
During the excavation, rows of post pits with footprints and a wall trench were unearthed, which belonged to a building constructed using the sleeper method. Two truncated cone-shaped storage pits were also excavated. One contained an undamaged hand mill consisting of a runner and a lower runner, while the other contained almost complete storage vessels. These included ceramic fragments of vessels with internal divisions.
Annemarie ReckImage Source M. Gutsche, Umzeichnung ©LfA 2003.
Ceramics
The pottery remains are very similar to finds from three grave inventories that were excavated at the foot of the Göhrisch in 1974. These are typical forms of "humped pottery" and "grooved pottery", as produced by the older Lusatian culture.
Annemarie ReckImage Source M. Gutsche, Foto ©LfA 2003.
Bronze Age settlements
The Central Saxon Loess Hills are an ancient settlement landscape that has been frequented since the Neolithic period. It is one of the most fertile regions in Saxony and therefore played an important role in the Late Bronze Age settlement network alongside the nearby castles on the Rauhe Furt. The hamlets and farmsteads surrounding the castles produced the agricultural surplus that could be fed into the supra-regional exchange systems. More and more frequently, surface excavations reveal individual sleeper beam houses surrounded by silo pits. The resulting pattern provides archaeologists with information about Bronze Age settlement in the hinterland of the fortified castles.
Annemarie ReckImage Source M. Gutsche, Foto ©LfA 2002.
Literature
Michael Strobel, EAC-Exkursion „Rauhe Furt“ Samstag, 15.10.2022, Begleitheft, 2022, 15–17.
Note on monument protection
Archaeological monuments are protected by the Saxon Monument Protection Act. A permit under monument law is required for ground interventions or construction measures.
Permalink
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Citation
Annemarie Reck, Bronze Age settlement near Niedermuschütz. In: Landesamt für Archäologie Sachsen, Website archaeo | SN (01.02.2024). https://archaeo-sn.de/en/ort/bronze-age-settlement-near-niedermuschutz/ (Stand: 14.08.2026)
