The Elsfleth-Hogenkamp beach market during the Roman Iron Age and Migration Period. Interdisciplinary surveys undertaken to determine its settlement and economic structures and topographical changes in the first millennium AD

最近对EMS和Weser河下游的登陆点和海滩市场的研究，获得了许多关于罗马铁器时代和移民时期德国西北部经济和社会组织的新信息。在这方面具有特别重要意义的是亨特河流入威瑟河的地区，那里有许多定居点，有适合船只靠岸的地方和参与超区域贸易的证据。其中，埃尔斯弗莱斯-霍根坎普遗址尤其重要，因为在那里发现了极其广泛的高质量金属物体。作为博士论文的一部分，对这份材料的最新分析证实了超区域贸易联系的存在和有色金属工匠在公元前千年前半段的激烈活动。由于发现的材料主要是从地表收集的，或者是通过金属探测器发现的，因此这个定居点中的建筑物的外观和结构组织在很大程度上仍然不清楚。因此，这里申请的项目主要集中在地球物理和土壤学调查，以及考古探测和陶瓷科学分析，这将有助于澄清该遗址地区的保存条件，并确定哪些活动反映在发现和特征中。此外，冶金分析将确定现场采用了哪些工艺、加工的金属的来源以及现场生产了哪些货物。通过包括发现的材料和来自附近类似年代的其他遗址的记录，还将分析埃尔斯弗莱斯-霍根坎普遗址在当地聚落格局中的作用。

Recent research on landing places and beach markets along the lower reaches of the Rivers Ems and Weser has yielded much new information about the economic and social organisation of north-western Germany during the Roman Iron Age and Migration Period. Of particular significance in this respect is the area where the River Hunte flows into the Weser, where a number of settlements are known with places suitable for ships to land and evidence of participation in supra-regional trade. Among these, the Elsfleth-Hogenkamp site is especially important because an extremely broad spectrum of high-quality metal objects was found there. The latest analysis of this material, undertaken as part of a PhD thesis, confirms both the existence of supra-regional trade contacts and intense activity by non-ferrous-metal craftsmen throughout the first half of the first millennium AD. The appearance of the buildings in this settlement and their structural organisation are still largely unknown since the find material was mainly collected from the surface or found by metal detectors. The project being applied for here therefore concentrates principally on geophysical and pedological investigations, together with archaeological sondages and scientific analyses of ceramics, which will help clarify the preservation conditions in the area of the site and determine what activities are reflected in the finds and features. In addition, metallurgical analyses will determine what crafts were practiced on the site, the origin of the metals worked and what goods were produced on the site. By including the find material and records from other sites of similar age in the vicinity, the role of the Elsfleth-Hogenkamp site within the local settlement pattern will also be analysed.