PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Podliska, Jaroslav
TI  - New data concerning the settlement in the backyard of Týnský court in the Old Town square in Prague
DP  - 2009 Dec 15
TA  - Staletá Praha
PG  - 2--15
VI  - 25
IP  - 2
AID - 10.56112/sp.2009.2.01
IS  - 02316056
AB  - This presentation concerns the results of a rescue excavation of a house plot in the centre of The Old Town of Prague in 2006. In the backyard of a late 19th century tenement house, on a site neighbouring the Old Town square and Ungelt, a unique example of the settlement stratigraphy, dated to the earliest early medieval settlement phase from the 11th to the onset of the 13th century, was preserved. Both are key sites concerning the settlement of the historic centre on the right hand river bank. The excavated features are dominated by numerous negative features representing the original timber buildings, which were replaced in the early 13th century by a Romanesque stone construction built of plaener ashlar masonry. The well preserved condition of the site allowed a rare detailed study of stratigraphy and taphonomy of this area. The new knowledge contributes to the solution of fundamental themes of medievalist research of the genesis of pre-location settlement areas from their origins to their following transformation into high medieval legal towns.