Figure 2
(a) The Rungholt settlement and investigation area. White dotted lines indicate the areas covered by magnetic gradiometry, the white dashed line outlines an area covered by marine seismic reflection profiles23. The insets highlight exemplary settlement structures as found by magnetic gradiometry for areas B (two terps and surrounding drainage ditches), C (two terps and ditch system), and E (dike section with attached terps23). Area A is flooded today but was archaeologically documented already in 192341 and newly rectified in the present GIS project using QGIS 3.34.4 (https://www.qgis.org/en/site/). Red lines indicate boundaries of drainage direction change. Coordinates are in UTM32N (EPSG:32632). (b) Most common find categories of imported and high-quality objects have been found evenly distributed throughout the areas A, B and E. They include (from left to right, not to scale) imported lead-glazed redware and stoneware30, cast bronze cauldrons30, hammered brass cauldrons30, swords and hispano-moresque faience30 (the last only in area B). Areas C and D yield no finds due to sediment cover.
