Propylaeum

On the southern edge of the Teutoburg Forest, a settlement from the 7th and 8th centuries was archaeologically investigated in Lengerich-Hohne in 1983/84. All in all, the picture of a rural settlement from the time before the incorporation of Westphalia into the Frankish Empire is presented. Although the settlement ends with Charlemagne's Saxon wars, no causal connection can be established either on the basis of the finds or the features.
The finds comprise metal objects, spindle whorls, weaving weights and stone tools such as whetstones and grinding stones. Most frequent, however, is pottery. With the help of ceramic chronology, stratigraphy and the results of house research, at least three successive settlement phases of the early Middle Ages could be identified. However, the assignment of individual buildings to courtyard groups remained uncertain. Especially worth mentioning is the ship-shaped main house 1, which is a typical representative of this building form characteristic for the 8^th century in the East Dutch-Westphalian area.
This thesis was accepted as a dissertation at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster in 1998.