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Different kinds of buildings with posts that can be found in the early medieval settlement of Kirchheim and some reconstructions (after Fries-Knoblach 2014, Fig. 35 and 36).
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Zitat: Doris Gutsmiedl-Schümann, Individual lifeworlds and social structured societies in Merovingian settlements of the Munich Gravel Plain. In: Liv Helga Dommasnes / Doris Gutsmiedl-Schümann / Alf Tore Hommedal, The Farm as a Social Arena (Münster 2016), 105-125. -----
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Cemeteries and graves from the Merovingian Period on the Munich Gr...
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... E III 2), so it has to remain uncertain whether or where there were living quarters in these longhouses. However, in the settlement plan of Kirchheim, for example, a few of these houses have other construction elements inside, which may indicate a separation or wall between different parts of the house (for example, houses number 418 and 420: fig. 2). Phosphate analyses in similar settlements show that the smaller part of the house might have been used as a stable (Bauer/Küster/ Weski 1993, 111-117;Geisler 1997, ...
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