1. Living in the Rhine-
Meuse delta during the
Middle Bronze Age
1500-1050 BC
The Eigenblok House Site
Peter Jongste
Hazenberg Archeologie Leiden

2. 1. Introduction
2. The Rhine-Meuse Delta
3. The Bronze Age in the RMD
4. Eigenblok:
-Setting and location
-House site 5
-Long house and
outbuilding
-Activities and use
THIS
PRESENTATION

3. Middle Bronze Age:
1800-1050 BC
INTRODUCTION

4. RegionsMiddle Bronze Age sites
THE RHINE-MEUSE DELTA
(CENTRAL RIVER AREA)

7. Early Bronze Age and Middle Bronze Age (2000-1300 BC.)

8. Middle Bronze Age (final phase 1300-1050 BC.)

10. Middle Bronze Age sites
Wijk bij Duurstede
DodewaardZijderveld
Eigenblok

12. Setting and location
EIGENBLOK

13. Site 5
Site 6
Site 4
Site 3Site 2
Site 1

14. EIGENBLOK
HOUSE SITE 5

17. longhouse
“bus shelter”
well
granaries
palissade
barrow
pits

18. Eigenblok site 5
1st phase: LN-EBA barrow
(around 2000 BC)
2nd phase: setting up MBA
house site around 1500 BC
House site in use for 30-60 yrs
1-2 generations
Durability of wood: Oak 25-30 yrs
Eigenblok: Alder - 5-15 yrs
Prevention, shelter, repair?

19. - Longhouses
- Focus on cattle
- Indoor stalling
- Fences & field boundaries
- Well defined farmsteads
- Association with barrow
(dated from LN-EBA)
House: central element of house-site
Size house site: 50 x 50 m
Regularity and “sudden” introduction
around 1500 BC

20. 
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EIGENBLOK
LONGHOUSE & OUTBUILDING

21. structuur 2
diepte van de palen
aangegevne t.o.v. 0,70 +NAP

22. Gewicht in grammen per segment
2.020 to 6.180
820 to 2.020
260 to 820
0 to 260
10m0
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EIGENBLOK
ACTIVITIES & USE

23. Foot steps on the dance floor…

26. Now: building Eigenblok in practice
by Leo Wolterbeek