Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen, Rosemarie Cordie, P. Over, Simon Mägdefessel, Rebecca Retzlaff, J. Stoffels
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Abstract. The Roman vicus Belginum and the associated Celtic–Roman cemetery have been the
subject of systematic archaeological research since 1954. Since 2004,
archaeological prospections have been carried out in and around Belginum.
Participants included students from the universities of Leipzig, Trier, and
Munich as part of study-accompanying field work. This paper deals with the prospections of 2004 and 2016, when nearly 2 ha of land south of the federal road B327
(Hunsrückhöhenstraße) were surveyed. The study area is located on a NW-to-SE-running hillside.
All non-local objects present on the surface were collected and
three-dimensionally recorded. Previously in 2013, the area was
geomagnetically prospected by Posselt & Zickgraf (Marburg). Both surveys
revealed a hitherto unknown extent of the vicus about 200 m to the
southwest. The findings date back to the late first to third centuries common era. All finds (ceramic, bricks, roof slate, glass, and metal) were recorded and
analysed in a QGIS and ArcGIS environment together with lidar scans, the
geomagnetic data, and other geographical information. The overall
distributions of bricks and pottery were studied in detail. The distribution
of bricks is in particular connected to the individual plots, while the
pottery is mainly concentrated in the backyards. Regarding surveys in other
Roman vici, the brick distribution could be a helpful indicator to identify
plots, when no geophysical information is available.