The Oss-Noord Project

Preface

PART 1: Analysis

Chapter 1: Introduction to the project
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The genesis of the Maaskant
1.3 History of the Oss-North Project: continuity and change
1.4 Aims of the project
1.5 Research questions
1.6 Structure of the book: a narrative approach

Chapter 2: Methods and methodology
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Field campaigns
2.3 Staff and students
2.4 Field methods and finds registration
2.5 Documentation and description

Chapter 3: Chronology and typology of structures
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Houses
3.3 Outbuildings and granaries
3.4 Wells and watering holes
3.5 Ditches
3.6 Fences
3.7 Finds

Chapter 4: Excavations in the Mikkeldonk district
4.1 Introduction
4.2 History of reseach
4.3 Episodes of settlement in the Mikkeldonk quarter

Chapter 5: Excavations in the Schalkskamp district (1990 – 1992)
5.1 Short history of research
5.2 Pits and wells of the Early Bronze Age – Middle Bronze Age: the first signs of habitation in the Schalkskamp area
5.3 Late Bronze Age – Early Iron Age
5.4 The Middle Iron Age
5.5 Late Iron Age settlement: abandonment or disaster?
5.6 The transition from the Iron Age to the Early Roman Period
5.7 The Early Roman Period
5.8 The Late Middle Ages re-use the old settlement area
5.9 An anecdote about the early Modern Period

Chapter 6: Excavations in the Mettegeupel district (1993-1995)
6.1 Background
6.2 Diachronic development of the cultural landscape

Chapter 7: Excavations in the Almstein district (1995)
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Three granaries from the Early or Middle Iron Age
7.3 A settlement of the Middle to the Late Iron Age
7.4 The Roman Period
7.5 The Middle Ages and Modern Period

Chapter 8: Vegetation and crops in Oss-North
8.1 Oss-North and the vegetation on the yards of its Bronze, Iron Age and Early Roman Age farms
8.2 The crops of the Oss-North farmers during the Bronze Age and Iron Age

Chapter 9: The animal bones of Mettegeupel, Mikkeldonk and Schalkskamp
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Methods
9.3 Preservation
9.4 General results
9.5 Results per site
9.6 Discussion

Chapter 10: Glass, metal, stone, clay and wooden objects from Oss-Noord
10.1 Introduction
10.2 The La Tène glass jewellery from Oss-Noord
10.3 Metal and metal production remains
10.4 Sling bullets
10.5 Stone and flint objects
10.6 Loom weights and spindle whorls

Chapter 11: Oss-North: the second decade of excavations at Oss; a synthesis
11.1 Objectives
11.2 Settlement dynamics
11.3 Themes of supra-local interest

PART 2: Description

Chapter 12: Introduction to the catalogue
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Structure of the data presentation
12.3 Descriptive elements
12.4 Note on MapInfo as a publication tool
12.5 Note on drawings and technicians
12.6 Note on numbering
12.7 Structure of the catalogue

Chapter 13: Features in the Mikkeldonk quarter
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Houses
13.3 Granaries and outbuildings
13.4 Pits and wells
13.5 Fences, ditches and cart-tracks
13.6 Funerary Structures

Chapter 14: Features in the Schalkskamp quarter
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Houses
14.3 Outbuildings
14.4 Pits and wells
14.5 Ditches and fences
14.6 Funerary structures

Chapter 15: Features in the Mettegeupel quarter
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Houses
15.3 Granaries and outbuildings
15.4 Pits and wells
15.5 Ditches and palisades
15.6 Funerary structures

Chapter 16: Features in the Almstein quarter
16.1 Introduction
16.2 Houses
16.3 Granaries
16.4 Ditches and palisades