sunken hut

The most numerous are sunken huts, called Grubenhäuser in German.

Sunken huts appeared in the easternmost zones of Transylvania around 7th century.

Villages of sunken huts with stone ovens appeared in Transylvania around 600.

Other cropmarks on river gravel terraces east of Cote suggest Saxon sunken huts.

This discovery overturned the earlier hypothesis that a single sunken hut indicted that the Saxons had chosen the spot for habitation.

Sunken huts had for centuries been typical for settlements east of the Carpathians, but now they appeared in distant zones of the Pontic steppes.

The common people in Biharia, Cenad, Moreşti, and other villages lived in sunken huts covered with gabled roofs but with no hearths or ovens.

Anglo-Saxon bone combs Early Anglo-Saxon pottery cups from the Stour Street area Anglo-Saxon sunken hut found to the rear of 16 Watling Street.

A new material culture characterized by handmade pottery, cremation burials and small, square, sunken huts that typically featured a corner stone oven appeared in the plains along the Middle Danube around that time.

Of the 22 buildings excavated three were sunken huts, 17 are rectangular founded on individual post holes, one is represented by post holes between which are beam slots, and one by eight single large posts.

Excavation of the Anglo-Saxon cemetery also revealed extensive occupation evidence: late Iron Age and Roman enclosures and field boundaries, an early Roman kiln, and a small settlement of 'sunken huts' and post-hole buildings possibly contemporary with the cemetery.