Modelling Monnikerede. The Topographical Reconstruction of a Deserted Medieval Outport near Bruges

Trachet, Jan; Leloup, Ward; Dombrecht, Kristof; Deleforterie, Samuël; Dumolyn, Jan; Thoen, Erik; Meirvenne, Marc Van; Clerq, Wim De

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“…The reason and explanation for the lower amount of ceramic material at Nieuw‐Roeselare thus must be found elsewhere. Based on historical research, it is clear that Hoeke, Monnikerede and Coxyde were important harbour towns within the Bruges network of Zwin harbours (Trachet et al 2017, Trachet et al, ; De Ruijsscher, ). Although Nieuw‐Roeselare is mentioned in 1309 as one of the ‘smalle steden’ (small cities) in the Franc of Bruges (Gottschalk, ), its importance is unclear.…”

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Lost but revived. Revisiting the medieval village of Nieuw‐Roeselare (Flanders) using large‐scale frequency‐domain multi‐receiver EMI and landscape archaeological prospection

Verbrugghe

Saey²,

Neer

2020

Archaeological Prospection

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During the 10th to 13th centuries, the rural settlement landscapes of the County of Flanders underwent major changes. Complex interactions between urbanization, growing comital power, demographic changes and rural development formed the basis for intensified reclamations of the landscape. Based on historical research, the ab nihilo plantation of grouped rural settlements by the counts and other landlords played an important role in the organization and systematization of these reclamations. To date, however, archaeological attention for these grouped settlements is scarce, mainly due to Flanders' build‐up and urbanized character. This article describes the renewed cross‐disciplinary landscape archaeological research at the site of the lost village of Nieuw‐Roeselare (northern East Flanders), which was the first medieval village to be partly excavated in Flanders between 1967 and 1979. Believed to have been planted in 1241 and lost to floods in 1375, little is known historically about the site nor does the modern‐day polder landscape show any remnants of a former settlement. Now, a large‐scale cross‐disciplinary prospection comprising 35 ha of frequency‐domain multi‐receiver electromagnetic induction (EMI), oblique aerial photography, augering, pseudo‐two‐dimensional tomography and site specific artefact‐accurate field walking, allowed to define the settlement's full extent, clarify its geographical context and identify its morphology as a planted settlement in the context of the medieval landscape reclamations.

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Lost but revived. Revisiting the medieval village of Nieuw‐Roeselare (Flanders) using large‐scale frequency‐domain multi‐receiver EMI and landscape archaeological prospection

Verbrugghe

Saey²,

Neer

2020

Archaeological Prospection

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“…In de late middeleeuwen functioneerde de nederzetting als voorhaven van Brugge op de linkeroever van de getijdengeul richting Damme. Zowel de topografische lig ging, datering en functie zijn uitgebreid bestudeerd door de aanwezigheid van goed bewaard tekstueel en archeologisch bron materiaal (De Smet 1940;Hillewaert 1986;Trachet et al 2017a;Trachet et al 2017b). Een blijvend punt van onduide lijkheid en onenigheid betreft echter de toponymische verkla ring van de plaatsnaam.…”

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Verdwenen en Verzwonden: Havengerelateerde toponiemen langs het middeleeuwse Zwin

Trachet

2019

Handelingen Van De Koninklijke Commissie Voor Toponymie en Dialectologie

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“…During the heydays of its commerce and culture, the connection with the North Sea was assured via a tidal channel, known as the 'Zwin', which -according to some brief historical sources -was formed in the year 1134, following a storm surge or some other catastrophic marine event (De Clercq et al, 2021;Pannier, 1970;Verhulst, 1959). Historical and archaeological research demonstrated that the economic activity was not restricted to the city of Bruges itself, but extended along the Zwin tidal channel via a network of harbours, the so-called outports of Damme, Monnikerede, Hoeke, Mude and Sluis which were thriving towns on their own (Figure 1) (De Clercq et al, 2017Leloup, 2018;Trachet et al, 2016Trachet et al, , 2017aTrachet et al, , 2017bTrachet et al, , 2017cTrachet and De Clercq, 2018). In the course of the Late Middle Ages, the Zwin steadily lost its function as an economical viable transport route.…”

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Sedimentary and stratigraphic architecture in the geoarchaeological context of Late-Holocene deposits in the eastern coastal plain of Belgium: Zwin region – Hoeke

Bogemans,

De Clercq,

Poulain

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The Holocene

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A sedimentary investigation was carried out into the rise and fall of mediaeval Bruges’ maritime access. Because the mediaeval metropolis had no direct connection with the North Sea, its maritime connectivity during the High- and Late-Middle Ages depended on a tidal channel, known as the ‘Zwin’. In order to reconstruct the mediaeval physical environmental situation correctly, the entire Holocene sedimentary record was studied through undisturbed mechanically-drilled cores and electrical cone penetration tests (CPT-e). A detailed sedimentary analysis was complemented with radiocarbon dating and datable archaeological finds to resolve a timeframe for the sedimentary evolution. Tidal channel systems with diverse morphologic and sedimentologic characteristics prevail and cover a period from at least the Roman period till the Late-Middle Ages. The presence of a single peat layer directly on top of the Pleistocene substrate and the stratigraphic position of the tidal channel deposits relative to this peat layer, proves that no seawater entered this part of the Belgian coastal plain before the Late-Holocene. The tidal channel system that was active during the heydays of Bruges (the Zwin) was the last natural one. It silted up due to a further reduction of the accommodation space as a consequence of new embankments, possibly expedited by storms.

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Modelling Monnikerede. The Topographical Reconstruction of a Deserted Medieval Outport near Bruges

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Lost but revived. Revisiting the medieval village of Nieuw‐Roeselare (Flanders) using large‐scale frequency‐domain multi‐receiver EMI and landscape archaeological prospection

Lost but revived. Revisiting the medieval village of Nieuw‐Roeselare (Flanders) using large‐scale frequency‐domain multi‐receiver EMI and landscape archaeological prospection

Verdwenen en Verzwonden: Havengerelateerde toponiemen langs het middeleeuwse Zwin

Sedimentary and stratigraphic architecture in the geoarchaeological context of Late-Holocene deposits in the eastern coastal plain of Belgium: Zwin region – Hoeke

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