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Habitat features (elevation, materials for the textures, and so on)

Sub scenario I – settlements and settlement patterns 7 one-to-two-room basic buildings of different type and purpose are reconstructed, further necessary features like 4-post-storehouses, ovens, fences, cattle etc. To make clear the insecurity in construction of houses on the plateau houses should be created as prototypes with the possibility of changing textures for different solutions (see below). The fortification wall of the plateau with its two entrances and the walls of the fortified annex are to be reconstructed. Extended and detailed house-building should be positioned on the western part of the plateau, from the “Enzheimer” gate up to the water reservoir “Weiher”. The eastern part of the plateau is meant to fluently disappear in dust, cause it is not quite clear if the whole plain was inhabited. Buildings inside the annex and of the suburban areas around the Glauberg will be taken from the basic building-models.

Examples for house constructions have been taken from the settlement Hünfeld-Mackenzell (Hesse) about 30 km north of Glauburg, which shows house constructions of a spatial density. Another site is the Heuneburg in Baden-Wurttemberg, the best excavated early Iron Age fortification in the area, which shows structure and patterns of fortress-buildings.



An idea of the pattern of houses that were set inside the plateau can be can be seen in ID 347: house-complexes with different other housing units like pit-houses, stables ore stores could have been fenced by wooden constructions or by hedges. Small gardens or smallest fields might have existed on the plateau as well, but of course houses were built closer together on the limited space of the hill-top than on the open field farmsteads below. A plan of the Heuneburg-fortress - especially for its excavated south-western part - can serve as a pattern for the Glauberg house location.An idea of the pattern of houses that were set inside the plateau can be can be seen in ID 347: house-complexes with different other housing units like pit-houses, stables ore stores could have been fenced by wooden constructions or by hedges. Small gardens or smallest fields might have existed on the plateau as well, but of course houses were built closer together on the limited space of the hill-top than on the open field farmsteads below. A plan of the Heuneburg-fortress - especially for its excavated south-western part - can serve as a pattern for the Glauberg house location.




Near to the fortification-wall (that in the place of the Glauberg has to be constructed in a different manner and shape, described above) houses were standing that close, that their roofs overlapped. The Heuneburg also bears the prototype for a “masters house”. The biggest house in the fortress (see above) that might be interpreted as a community house or a princely or principle’s house. This also is intended to be reconstructed in the Glauberg hill-top scenario. Next to this a store house (ID 331) a further living house (ID 311) and a looming house are reconstructed from the Heuneburg. A pit house reconstruction can be taken from the Glauberg site “Klause” (exterior settlement, ID 286). The feature can be combined with reconstructions from Bavarian Gabreta and Hochdorf site in Baden-Wurttemberg.

Open environments

Even on the Heuneburg, where Houses have been built quite close to each other, free areas around some houses can be found that are fenced and framed with a drainage of small gravels around them. These areas may have been places for small gardens, working places and a small range stock breeding. For this reasons there is a possibility to make them more vivid in a second step with garden plants, crowds of chicken, dogs etc.





The image of Basel Münsterhügel, a late Iron-Age oppidum gives a good idea of a garden integrated in the settlement structure. In the earlier Glauberg one has to remind the often found fences and palisades enclosing and separating housesteads. For this reasons there is a possibility to make them more vivid in a second step with garden plants, crowds of chicken, dogs etc.

Water reservoir

The water reservoir/pond (ID 328, d) is supposed to have existed in the same place in Iron Age Time. But the drainage gravel (marked with a red x) is of medieval origin and to be omitted. The size of the reservoir comprises the inner circle of the feature in ID 444, the other circles describe the medieval fixing of the pond. The pond nowadays can be gazed in ID 260, 261, in spite of this the Iron Age pond was in use with less vegetation and possibly a wooden construction (bar) to get to the water easily.

Fences

Small fences for house enclosures can be copied from the following images: wattling fence ID 116, palisades ID 135 (with peaky posts), hedges (many of the seeds and polls can be used as hedge-plants (whitethorn)). Fences are marked in the survey-house-map (ID 328) as black line structures.

Four-Post-Storehouses

A four- post storehouse with a lifted floor is provided in ID 343, they were usual storage places for food like crop and everything else to be kept dry.

Ovens and fireplaces

A model of an oven for baking can be found in the Gabreta park in Bavaria. A photo series 321- 324 shows its construction from the wattling skeleton to the complete oven topped with clay. Some tools for removing the products and the ashes can be seen in image 324.

Closed environments

Two indoor ovens are placed for example in the ‘master house’ of the Heuneburg (see ID 310, ground plan and isometric projection) An indoor fireplace with fume hood can be seen in ID 318, a kind of conical chimney is leading the steam out of the interior of the house. A fireplace without steamhood in ID122.



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