EXTENT OF EXCAVATIONS
Access was gained to the area beneath the pavement of the nave and
aisles of the church, as well as to terrain beneath the pavement of
the rotunda. Beneath the aisles of the choir the soil was heavily
disturbed by the Gothic reconstruction. In the nave of the choir the
only accessible portions were those not occupied by the substructure
of the Baroque choir stalls, with the exception of narrow heating
conduits which it was necessary to drill across these areas. Inaccessible
was terrain beneath the Baroque high altar and the sacristy
east of it.
In the church itself and between the foundations of the Gothic
choir and those of the Baroque church lay a rich trove of remains
from earlier churches in a series of strata, each of which could be
clearly associated with building activities known through literary
sources.
Horizons lying above the Gozbert horizon will be fully described
and analyzed in Dr. Sennhauser's report. In this short review,
concerned only with pre-Carolingian and Carolingian horizons, the
Gozbert stratum is used as the site base line (± 0.00 m).
