W De Clercq
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 82659 |
|---|---|
| NOME | W De Clercq |
| PRENOMES | W |
| SOBRENOME | De Clercq |
| ASSINATURA | DE CLERCQ W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5560-486X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 309 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2027 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Small Heaps on Large Mounds
This dataset accompanies the paper "Small Heaps on Large Mounds: Where Mole Activity Meets Moated Sites. Re-evaluating and Refining Molehill-Archaeology in the Shadow of the Zwin City Damme (Belgium)", submitted to the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. It contains the processed drone, geophysical, coring and molehill data that support the analysis and interpretations presented in the paper. The study investigates several moated sites i…
The Lost Port Landscape of Medieval Bruges Reconstructed in Virtual Reality
This paper presents the results of the ‘Lost Ports of the Zwin’ project (Dutch: Verdwenen Zwinhavens). A decade of interdisciplinary scientific research by Ghent University has produced new insights about the maritime cultural landscape of medieval Bruges, the gateway to one of the most important European cities of the time. However, centuries of embankment, conflict, and large infrastructural works have rendered that landscape unintelligible to …
Optimizing Strategies for Non‐Invasive Prospection of Settlements in the Intertidal Zone
Medieval and early modern drowned villages in the intertidal zone of the Scheldt estuary (the Netherlands) constitute intriguing yet largely understudied components of north‐western Europe's underwater cultural heritage. Despite their high archaeological potential as time capsules of past settlement landscapes, research has remained limited due to the lack of survey methodologies adapted to dynamic intertidal environments. In this study, we prese…
Reconstructing a Lost Suburb
FDEM and magnetometry surveys of medieval suburban area, Integration of geophysical surveys into historical GIS, Topographical reconstruction of medieval cityscape
Multimethod archaeological prospection of the abbey church of Ter Doest (Lissewege, Bruges, Belgium)
Multimethod geophysical survey combining magnetometry, EMI, and electrical resistance, Combined geophysical and historical analysis show deviations in the Cistercian layout, Electrical resistance overcomes distorted EMI results near utility lines
A Baltic Connection? Late Medieval Shipwrecks Reused in the Harbour of Hulst, The Netherlands
During a watching brief in the town of Hulst (The Netherlands) in 2011 several ship timbers were found reused in two late medieval quay sides. Both the restricted time in the field and lack of initial budget for the research were constraints to this project. In the consecutive years the wood, moss and pollen were analysed. The results delivered an insight in the construction methods, dates and provenances of the shipwrecks that were reused in the…
At the Apothecary
In 1996, a cesspit was uncovered in the backyard of Bruges’ Spanish nation house. The interdisciplinary study of this old rescue excavation sheds new light on life in the city’s international district between the late 14th and early 16th century. The refuse in the cesspit is what is left of several generations of traders, from a well-to-do apothecary, employing alchemical apparatus in the production of pigments, to Spanish traders documented at t…
A new mint for Charlemagne (768-†814) ? An investigation into the earliest history of Bruges
The fortified site at Lanaken near Maastricht (Belgium/the Netherlands). New insights on early medieval military and elite strategies in the middle Meuse valley
Archaeological excavation near Maastricht (the Netherlands) in the town of Lanaken (Belgium) revealed a previously unknown wooden‐and‐earth fortified site dating back to c .650–800. The fortification's construction, layout and dimensions are indicative of Roman military practice, suggesting active application of this practice during the early medieval period. This research delves into the implications of this discovery, shedding light on early me…
A medieval embankment near the lost harbour of Mude (Zeeland, the Netherlands)
Terrestrial and aquatic ecological conditions were reconstructed from tidal flat deposits evolving into a medieval embankment. • Local brackish-freshwater diatoms indicate that the embankment was outside of frequent tidal reach. • Palynomorphs were associated with anthropogenic activities (e.g. the use of peat for fuel and of hemp for rope making). • Cultivated plants were likely grown in the vicinity, while fig seeds testify to Mediterranean foo…
Sedimentary and stratigraphic architecture in the geoarchaeological context of Late-Holocene deposits in the eastern coastal plain of Belgium
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 …
Shedding Some Light on Indoor Lighting in 15th-Century Flemish Urban Houses
THE PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER is to verify and accept or disprove and reject the long-lived idea of dark living spaces in 15th-century housing culture and to explore the possible social significance of light indoors. Artificial light sources, such as candles, are rarely preserved and associated material culture (from oil lamps to window parts) are seldom found in situ. As such, it seems almost impossible to study the functional aspects of light sourc…
Marginal Mounds and Maritime Shepherding. A Landscape Archaeological Survey of a Late Medieval Sheep Mound in the Belgian Coastal Plain
The ‘Scaperie’ site in Knokke-Heist (Belgium), identified through a topographic analysis of a sixteenth-century map and located in a maritime sedimentary environment, serves as the focal point for this research. Employing a landscape archaeological approach, this study integrates multiple data sources including ceramics, historical maps, aerial photographs, LiDAR-data, geophysical surveys, and a coring survey. The dataset revealed the remnants of…
Archaeometallurgical research into the ironworking activities of the Medieval Harbour at Hoeke (Belgium)
Archaeological research at Hoeke, a Late Medieval outer harbour of Bruges (Belgium), has revealed large quantities of iron slags, fuel and other remains of iron working. Archaeometrical study has provided an enhanced insight into the historic iron working process, a craft activity which had up till now remained completely unknown in one of the largest economic hubs of medieval Europe. Several petrological, mineralogical and geochemical analytical…
Dating (early) modern hearths on a decadal to multi-annual timescale using OSL signals from heated sedimentary quartz
Fuelling the Roman salt industry. Developing a new multiproxy approach to identify peat fuel from archaeological combustion residue
Early modern pewter from the castle of Middelburg-in-Flanders (Belgium)
An exceptional archaeological assemblage of pewter was found during excavations at the castle of Middelburg (Belgium). This article gives an overview of the forms and marks that are represented and discusses the chronology and spatial distribution of these tin-alloyed finds. As such, it becomes possible to delineate certain functional zones at the castle, and get a glimpse of the lives of some individuals who have lived at the castle, from a Cath…
OSL dating as an alternative tool for age determination of relic charcoal kilns
Chronometric studies of charcoal production remains are largely based on 14 C‐dating of associated charcoal. Owing to intrinsic limitations, however, this method provides no meaningful time resolution for post‐1650 CE features. We investigate the potential of optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of heated sandy sediments as an alternative and complementary tool for dating charcoal kiln remains. Seven samples from five relic charcoal kil…
Two Odd Ones Out
Geochemical and mineralogical characterisation of vitrified waste material discovered in large quantities on Roman salt production sites along the southern North Sea coast
Refining silver at the castle
Lost but revived. Revisiting the medieval village of Nieuw‐Roeselare (Flanders) using large‐scale frequency‐domain multi‐receiver EMI and landscape archaeological prospection
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 organizati…
Row settlements and landscape reclamations in the medieval County of Flanders
Bypassing the Suess-effect
Lipids, funerals, gifts and feasts. Organic residue analysis on Merovingian ceramics from the Elversele burial field (Belgium)
Towards a three-dimensional cost-effective registration of the archaeological heritage
On introducing an image-based 3D reconstruction method in archaeological excavation practice
Dietary practices at the castle of Middelburg, Belgium
From Low Cost UAV Survey to High Resolution Topographic Data
This paper assesses the application of a consumer‐grade unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) solution for the image‐based three‐dimensional (3D) reconstruction of a buried Medieval landscape at Monnikerede, a deserted former outport of Bruges, with the archaeological aim to achieve a better characterization of the (micro)topography and ultimately a better understanding of the site. The UAV survey resulted in a highly detailed and accurate 3D model of th…
Routes across the Civitas Menapiorum
Shell and Glass Beads from the Tombs of Kindoki, Mbanza Nsundi, Lower Congo
The ancient Kingdom of Kongo originated in Central Africa in the 14th century. In the 15th century, the Portuguese organized tight contacts with the Bakongo. From then on European goods gained new significance in the local culture and even found their way into funerary rites. Among the most important grave goods in the Kingdom of Kongo were shell and glass beads. They occur in many tombs and symbolize wealth, status, or femininity. At the burial …
The current state of post-medieval archaeology in Flanders
Post-medieval archaeology in Flanders (Belgium) is a comparatively young archaeological discipline, even in an historically important region with centres such as Antwerp, Bruges and Ghent. Originating in the slipstream of Flemish urban archaeology during the 1970s, the discipline has struggled for recognition ever since. As a result of more than 40 years of fieldwork, the material record of early-modern and modern history has changed drastically.…
Ballasting the Hanse
The discovery of a remarkable group of vividly coloured rounded cobbles in the fields and monuments of the later medieval outports of Bruges has initiated a multi-disciplinary investigation into their function, provenance, and wider economic meaning. Geological analyses demonstrate that the stones are ballast of exotic lithological nature. A substantial number consist of glacial erratics collected from cobble beaches in the Baltoscandian area. An…
Sumptuary legislation, material culture and the semiotics of ‘ vivre noblement ’ in the county of Flanders (14th–16th centuries)
The question addressed in this contribution is a simple one: how was nobility structured in a society in which this particular form of social identity was not yet regulated by the princely state? H
Exploring an Archaeology of the Dutch War of Independence in Flanders, Belgium
Comparing Apparent Magnetic Susceptibility Measurements of a Multi‐receiver EMI Sensor with Topsoil and Profile Magnetic Susceptibility Data over Weak Magnetic Anomalies
Today, most surveys in archaeogeophysical prospection use magnetic properties to detect archaeological features. Such magnetic surveys are usually conducted with magnetometers and, to a lesser extent, with magnetic susceptibility meters and electromagnetic induction (EMI) sensors. Although the latter are the only instruments that allow mapping multiple physical soil properties simultaneously, EMI remains the odd‐one‐out in archaeogeophysical pros…
Reconstructing Phreatic Palaeogroundwater Levels in a Geoarchaeological Context
The complex debate on prehistoric settlement decisions is no longer tackled from a purely archaeological perspective but from a more landscape‐oriented manner combined with archaeological evidence. Therefore, reconstruction of several components of the former landscape is needed. Here, we focus on the reconstruction of the groundwater table based on modeling. The depth of the phreatic aquifer influences, for example, soil formation processes and …
Living in times of war
The material remains and environmental data recovered during a rescue excavation in 2002-03 in the castle of the new town of Middelburg-in-Flanders throw light on the site, region and landscape in wartime. The paper discusses the historical context at the turn of the 16th century, the excavation of the castle, the taphonomy of the chutes, the analysis of the artefacts and ecological data recovered from two garderobe chutes in the upper court, and…
Vivre Noblement
The example of two fifteenth-century, high-ranking officers of the Burgundian court shows how a radical transformation of the physical environment and an imitative interaction with material culture could create a powerful elite identity for those not born to nobility. A combination of evidence from archaeological, written, architectural, and art-historical sources reveals the ways in which Peter Bladelin and William Hugonet were able to parlay th…
Bypassing the Suess-effect
A Portuguese lifestyle in the Flemish countryside
In 1595, the Portuguese merchant banker Duarte Ximenez bought the Blauwhof, a castle-like estate in the Flemish countryside. An assemblage of pottery, recovered from the moat adjacent to the estate’s manor house, testifies to the status and hybrid identity of this 17th-century immigrant family. Although they were well assimilated into Antwerp’s high society, their foreign roots are still evident from particular Portuguese imports or the unconvent…
Een postmiddeleeuwse beerput aan de Hasseltse Poort te Tongeren (prov. Limburg)
Aan de Hasseltse Poort in Tongeren, in het noordwestelijke deel van de stad, werd door het Instituut voor het Archeologisch Patrimonium (I.A.P.) een noodonderzoek uitgevoerd naar aanleiding van de bouw van kantoren en appartementen. De site bevindt zich aan de rand van de middeleeuwse stadsomwalling, op de hoek van de Hasseltsestraat en de Pliniuswal. De archeologische ploeg onder leiding van Geert Vynckier en Alain Vanderhoeven, stelde er onder …
Composition and state of alteration of 18th-century glass finds found at the Cistercian nunnery of Clairefontaine, Belgium
Neighbourly ties
The mineralogy and petrography of Low Lands Ware 1 (Roman lower Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt basin; the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany)
Sedimentary and stratigraphic architecture in the geoarchaeological context of Late-Holocene deposits in the eastern coastal plain of Belgium
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 …
Dating (early) modern hearths on a decadal to multi-annual timescale using OSL signals from heated sedimentary quartz
Fuelling the Roman salt industry. Developing a new multiproxy approach to identify peat fuel from archaeological combustion residue
Refining silver at the castle
Towards an Integrated Methodology for Assessing Rural Settlement Landscapes in the Belgian Lowlands
Although the Belgian lowlands witnessed a dense rural occupation in Roman and especially in medieval times, the exact nature of the settlement patterns, the farms and the interaction with the landscape is still poorly understood archaeologically, both scientifically and from a heritage curatorship point of view. Archaeogeophysical research has remained relatively limited in this area. However, other prospection techniques such as aerial photograp…
Een postmiddeleeuwse beerput aan de Hasseltse Poort te Tongeren (prov. Limburg)
Aan de Hasseltse Poort in Tongeren, in het noordwestelijke deel van de stad, werd door het Instituut voor het Archeologisch Patrimonium (I.A.P.) een noodonderzoek uitgevoerd naar aanleiding van de bouw van kantoren en appartementen. De site bevindt zich aan de rand van de middeleeuwse stadsomwalling, op de hoek van de Hasseltsestraat en de Pliniuswal. De archeologische ploeg onder leiding van Geert Vynckier en Alain Vanderhoeven, stelde er onder …
Analyse d'un ensemble de terre sigillée
Wim de Clerc and Johan Deschieter, Prospections in Steene-Pitgam : analysis of a set of sigiliated earthenware. Over the past few years, the amateur archaelogist Ph. Ducrocq systematically prospected the surroundings of the communes of Steen-Pitgam. The eleven « dumping grounds » of archaeological artefacts that he located belong to an extensive Roman salt extraction site. Among the pottery material, sigiliated earthenware occupies a significant …
The mineralogy and petrography of Low Lands Ware 1 (Roman lower Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt basin; the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany)
Living in times of war
The material remains and environmental data recovered during a rescue excavation in 2002-03 in the castle of the new town of Middelburg-in-Flanders throw light on the site, region and landscape in wartime. The paper discusses the historical context at the turn of the 16th century, the excavation of the castle, the taphonomy of the chutes, the analysis of the artefacts and ecological data recovered from two garderobe chutes in the upper court, and…
Vivre Noblement
The example of two fifteenth-century, high-ranking officers of the Burgundian court shows how a radical transformation of the physical environment and an imitative interaction with material culture could create a powerful elite identity for those not born to nobility. A combination of evidence from archaeological, written, architectural, and art-historical sources reveals the ways in which Peter Bladelin and William Hugonet were able to parlay th…
Sumptuary legislation, material culture and the semiotics of ‘ vivre noblement ’ in the county of Flanders (14th–16th centuries)
The question addressed in this contribution is a simple one: how was nobility structured in a society in which this particular form of social identity was not yet regulated by the princely state? H
Development-led archaeology in Flanders
Towards an Integrated Methodology for Assessing Rural Settlement Landscapes in the Belgian Lowlands
Although the Belgian lowlands witnessed a dense rural occupation in Roman and especially in medieval times, the exact nature of the settlement patterns, the farms and the interaction with the landscape is still poorly understood archaeologically, both scientifically and from a heritage curatorship point of view. Archaeogeophysical research has remained relatively limited in this area. However, other prospection techniques such as aerial photograp…
Towards a three-dimensional cost-effective registration of the archaeological heritage
Comparing Apparent Magnetic Susceptibility Measurements of a Multi‐receiver EMI Sensor with Topsoil and Profile Magnetic Susceptibility Data over Weak Magnetic Anomalies
Today, most surveys in archaeogeophysical prospection use magnetic properties to detect archaeological features. Such magnetic surveys are usually conducted with magnetometers and, to a lesser extent, with magnetic susceptibility meters and electromagnetic induction (EMI) sensors. Although the latter are the only instruments that allow mapping multiple physical soil properties simultaneously, EMI remains the odd‐one‐out in archaeogeophysical pros…
Reconstructing Phreatic Palaeogroundwater Levels in a Geoarchaeological Context
The complex debate on prehistoric settlement decisions is no longer tackled from a purely archaeological perspective but from a more landscape‐oriented manner combined with archaeological evidence. Therefore, reconstruction of several components of the former landscape is needed. Here, we focus on the reconstruction of the groundwater table based on modeling. The depth of the phreatic aquifer influences, for example, soil formation processes and …
On introducing an image-based 3D reconstruction method in archaeological excavation practice
The current state of post-medieval archaeology in Flanders
Post-medieval archaeology in Flanders (Belgium) is a comparatively young archaeological discipline, even in an historically important region with centres such as Antwerp, Bruges and Ghent. Originating in the slipstream of Flemish urban archaeology during the 1970s, the discipline has struggled for recognition ever since. As a result of more than 40 years of fieldwork, the material record of early-modern and modern history has changed drastically.…
Het oudheidkundig bodemonderzoek aan de Sacramentstraat te Tongeren. Eindverslag 1993
Twee proefsleuven in het zuidelijk gedeelte van het terrein hadden aangetoond dat het Romeinse bodemarchief daar door een recente zandgroeve vernield was
Composition and state of alteration of 18th-century glass finds found at the Cistercian nunnery of Clairefontaine, Belgium
Shell and Glass Beads from the Tombs of Kindoki, Mbanza Nsundi, Lower Congo
The ancient Kingdom of Kongo originated in Central Africa in the 14th century. In the 15th century, the Portuguese organized tight contacts with the Bakongo. From then on European goods gained new significance in the local culture and even found their way into funerary rites. Among the most important grave goods in the Kingdom of Kongo were shell and glass beads. They occur in many tombs and symbolize wealth, status, or femininity. At the burial …
Heating the house. An archaeological and archaeometrical investigation into the tile-stoves of late-medieval Flanders, Belgium (14–17th centuries)
Tile stoves arise in the Low Countries from the 14th century onwards. Although they have been well documented in northern and central Europe, they have remained an almost forgotten aspect of the material culture of the historic county of Flanders (Belgium). In recent years the amount of stove tiles found in archaeological excavations has increased considerably, raising questions concerning their production and origin. Micro X-ray fluorescence spe…
Exploring an Archaeology of the Dutch War of Independence in Flanders, Belgium
Querns and mills during Roman times at the northern frontier of the Roman Empire (Belgium, Northern France, Southern Netherlands, Western Germany)
This paper presents the results of a multi-disciplinary provenance study of querns and millstones during the Roman period (1st-4th century CE) in the northern part of the Roman Empire (provinces of Gallia Belgica and Germania Inferior). Comparative petrographical, mineralogical and geochemical analysis allowed an international team of archaeologists and geologists to identify the different raw materials used for the manufacturing of querns and mi…
Turning Back the Tide
Pendant la hausse et la décadence de Bruges médiéval, une extension portuaire vers la mer du Nord était enchaîné, poldérisé et flanqué avec des canaux, des digues et des avant-ports. Ainsi, on créait un paysage historique ce qui est marqué par la interaction dynamique entre l’homme et la nature. L’objective de cette contribution est de reproduire une critique sur les approches précédents et courants à propos l’évolution du port médiéval de Bruges…
From Low Cost UAV Survey to High Resolution Topographic Data
This paper assesses the application of a consumer‐grade unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) solution for the image‐based three‐dimensional (3D) reconstruction of a buried Medieval landscape at Monnikerede, a deserted former outport of Bruges, with the archaeological aim to achieve a better characterization of the (micro)topography and ultimately a better understanding of the site. The UAV survey resulted in a highly detailed and accurate 3D model of th…
Dietary practices at the castle of Middelburg, Belgium
Reassessing Surface Artefact Scatters. The Integration of Artefact‐Accurate Fieldwalking with Geophysical Data at Medieval Harbour Sites Near Bruges (Belgium)
Archaeological fieldwalking is particularly used to detect sites within a landscape, rather than to assess the internal structure of a site itself. Contributory to this trend is that surface artefact patterns collected by pedestrian field survey are rarely seen as valuable archaeological data for intra‐site research. In recent decades, they have been overtaken by other non‐invasive prospection methods, which seem to be more efficient and time‐eff…
Routes across the Civitas Menapiorum
Making a Mountain Out of a Molehill? A Low-Cost and Time-Efficient Molehill Survey of the Lost Medieval Harbor Site of Monnikerede, Belgium
Grasslands pose a particular problem for archaeological survey involving artifact assessment, as no material is plowed up to the surface. Although finds in molehills are often the only source of information available on sites with such low visibility, an archaeology of molehills has thus far been largely disregarded. Yet, by applying a low-cost and time-efficient methodology, both the potential and the pitfalls of molehill archaeology come to the…
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