Archäologische Grabungen an den äußeren Befestigungsanlagen der Burg Ulmerfeld, Bezirk Amstetten

As part of the planned redesign of the outer areas of Ulmerfeld Castle, the municipality of Amstetten commissioned the archaeological investigation of the outer and inner moat in addition to the building archaeological survey of the remaining fortification walls. Summarizing the excavation results of this measure, it can be stated that today's wide ditch shape can be explained by anthropogenic rearrangement and deposition processes in the 20th century, while the original slope inclination rather corresponded to that at the southern end of the western ditch, where the ditch bottom is much narrower with a width of 1.3 m, and the original ditch shape can still be easily read today.

Part of the report series FÖ (volume 54/2015 [2017]). Abstract and full book avaiable at the publisher’s website: Verlag Berger.