Rullstorf III

The marked elevation of Kronsberg Hill near Rullstorf, distr. Lüneburg, above the Elbe Valley near Scharnebeck was excavated on a surface of nearly 8 ha during three decades ahead of sand and gravel extraction. Another 6 ha have been declared archaeological monument. Apart from the sheer size of the three find sites 5, 8, and 9, the site is unique because of its almost “Pompeian” preservation of features with enormous numbers of small finds thanks to thick layers of wind-blown sand. The evidence reaches from a Mesolithic campsite via Neolithic longhouses, settlements and cemeteries of the Bronze and Iron Ages, a Langobardic settlement, a Late Saxon cemetery [= IA 14] down to remarkable remains of pre- and protohistoric iron smelting and sunken-featured buildings of Early Medieval times. The third volume on the find material from Rullstorf [after MAN 25 and 44] deals with the finds without a documentable context which were collected in each of the 470 quadrants of the excavation surface, amongst them pottery, flint and rock implements, metal and glass objects, tiles/bricks, slags, bone, charcoal, daub etc.