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

最近对埃姆河和威瑟河下游的登陆地点和海滩市场的研究，提供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。在这方面特别重要的是亨特河流入威悉河的地区，那里有许多定居点，适合船只登陆，并有参与超区域贸易的证据。其中，埃尔斯弗利特-霍根坎普遗址尤为重要，因为在那里发现了种类繁多的高质量金属物品。作为博士论文的一部分，对这些材料进行的最新分析证实，在公元第一个千年的上半叶，存在着跨区域贸易联系和有色金属工匠的密集活动。由于发现的材料主要是从地表收集的或由金属探测器发现的，因此该定居点建筑物的外观及其结构组织在很大程度上仍然未知。因此，这里申请的项目主要集中在地球物理和土壤学调查，以及考古和陶瓷的科学分析，这将有助于澄清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使用的工艺，所加工金属的来源以及现场生产的商品。通过包括发现的材料和附近其他类似年龄遗址的记录，还将分析Elsfleth-Hogenkamp遗址在当地定居模式中的作用。

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.