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Bik, Rutger (2012)

Een waterput in Wijchen-Berendonck

Bachelor thesis | Archeologie (BA)

In 1976, there were plans for a big golf resort in Wijchen-Berendonck. It was known that this piece of land was full with archaeology. A big excavation followed. In April 1976 a lined well was found. The well was filled with hundreds of finds. These finds were stored in boxes in the faculty for archaeology in Leiden for 36 years! The journals of the excavation say that the well was lined with wattle work. Most of the finds are ceramics. The other finds were either too small or too fragile to be used as a dating marker. The dating of the well, which is solely based on the ceramic finds, must be around phase F of the Iron Age in the Netherlands. This date is the secondary use of the well as a refuse pit. The real date of the well, as a provider of drinking water, must have been before this.

Waterput

Wijchen

Berendonck

midden ijzertijd

Author

Bik, Rutger

Faculty

Faculty of Archaeology

Specialisation

BA Prehistorie

Supervisors

Verpoorte, A.

ECTS Credits

10

Language

nl