WILHELMSHAVEN-HESSE, GERMANY
When excavation work could be resumed after the war had
ended, Haarnagel added a number of excavations to his
preceding work, which enabled him to trace the history of
the aisled timber house both further back and further
forward in time. A trial ditch dug in 1939, just as the war
broke out, in Hesse, one of the suburbs of the city of
Wilhelmshaven, had suggested the presence, in a settlement
stratum of the seventh century A.D., of aisled houses of
the Hodorf-Einswarden type, such as he had previously
been able to assert only for the span of 300 B.C. to A.D. 200.
Systematic excavations undertaken in 1949 and continued
in 1950[134]
surpassed all expectations by establishing the
existence of this house type in settlement layers not only of
the seventh, but also of the eighth and ninth centuries A.D.
And in 1951-53 this span was further extended into the
eleventh, the twelfth, and thirteenth centuries through the
excavation of a medieval trading settlement in the city of
Emden.[135]
The result of these excavations is visually summarized
in a reconstruction model of one of the houses of
Wilhelmshaven-Hesse, here shown as figure 312.
