Propylaeum

In 1989, the Westfälisches Museum für Archäologie conducted a study of a burial ground in Porta Westfalica-Costedt with 44 graves dating from the early Roman Imperial period. A few urn graves were discovered, but the most common forms of burial were cremation graves, cremation patch and bone nests. Such variants are common in the Rhine-Weser Germanic region.
A relatively large number of garment buckles in the form of 15 fibulas were found at the burial ground, ceramic is the most common category of archaeological finds. Several graves contained Roman import products; a Roman disc fibula, terra sigillata, along with remains of Roman bronze vessels and glasses have been identified. The existence of a local ruling class can be deduced from the burial gifts of Roman import. On viewing these objects together, it is evident that two courts shared the same burial ground, one of which was for three generations recognisably richer than the other.
The site was analysed as part of two exercises at the Seminar for Prehistory and Early History of the Georg-August-University Göttingen from 1992 to 1994.

The publication of the decorated Arretine ceramics from the Roman encampments on the river Lippe at Oberaden and Haltern is of great interest, above all because historical events as well as dendrochronological and numismatic investigations have established the dating of the camps to the period between 11 BC and AD 9.
Against this background, the determination of specific potters and places of manufacture of the pieces found in Oberaden and Haltern is the main aim of this work. For this purpose, both the decorations and potter's stamps are examined and chemical analyses are taken into account. The typological and chronological classification of the vessels and finally a comparison of certain find sites should help to date the potteries themselves and their delivery times in the sales areas more precisely. This also provides an overview of the range of shapes and motifs used by certain potters within the firmly defined period and find area.
With the presentation of the decorated Arretina, the complete stock of Terra Sigillata from Haltern is now published.
This thesis was accepted as a dissertation at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster in 1991.