Bericht zur archäologischen Maßnahme Traismauer Stadtgraben

In the southeast of the historic town center of Traismauer, earthworks were Infrastructure line renewals in the area of the former moat earthworks on behalf of the municipality. These were archaeologically accompanied by the company ARDIG - Archäologischer Dienst GesmbH from 29.04.2022 to 10.05.2022. All activities were associated with the shallowest possible ground intervention to preserve archaeologically relevant layers. Only one planned pipeline route (in the central area of the city moat) was implemented in greater depth.
All ground interventions were archaeologically accompanied and recorded, but complex and archaeologically relevant finds and features were not encountered during the activities. The work was carried out from 29.04.2022 to 10.05.2022. The section revealed several deposits and backfills in the area of the southeastern moat park, which was in two contexts and phases of the modern and recent past (18th to 21st cent. ) - on the one hand, various small-scale, recent, and highly limited earth displacements in the course of an allotment use of individual sections of the investigation area and, on the other hand, a larger-scale, older and extending over the entire moat earth displacement in the 18th century in the course of the drainage and subsequent backfilling of the original moat. The documented find material supports this thesis: In all stratification units, about the material found, obviously, objects were encountered, which were brought in as "secondary refuse," probably always for the purpose of waste disposal.