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Settlement of the late Bronze Age urnfield period situated on a low island in moorland surrounding the Federsee. Excavations by Hans Reinerth between 1921 and 1937 revealed two main phases of occupation. Both were enclosed by a pair of timber palisades defining a roughly oval area some 150m by 120m. Pine logs had been used to make the palisade, more than 15 000 posts being present in the outer perimeter alone. The earliest occupation comprised 37 single-roomed rectangular structures each 4m by 5m, together with one rather larger two-roomed building. The second phase was rather different and comprised nine multi-roomed buildings, each set out with three wings around a central courtyard, together with an assortment of outbuildings. The pottery assemblage places the site within the early first millennium bc, Hallstatt, Gmunden, Austria A2, B1, and B3.
[Sum.: W. Kimmig, 1992, Die ‘Wasserburg Buchau’—eine späbronzezeitliche Siedlung: forschungsgeschichte—Kleinfunde. Stuttgart: Theiss]
