But further research is needed to decide if the cemetery area outside and inside the late
tenth-century rampart originally formed one burial ground.
The actual state of scientific analysis and publication still remains unfinished in some
important respects; for example; no detailed analysis of the settlement structure exists
apart from the first summarised reports, but recently a comprehensive study has been
finished (Schietzel 1981 ; Schultze 2006 ). An analysis of the harbour excavation is also in
preparation (by S. Kalmring). All burial finds remain unpublished, but they are studied
in Arents ( 1992 ), and aspects of burial rite are treated by Steuer ( 1984 ). Since 2002 a
group of younger researchers has been based in Schleswig using GIS in order to combine
all results from field research in Hedeby.
Figure 8. 2. 6 Excavation of a burnt-down pit-house of late tenth-century date. (Photo: D. Stoltenberg,
Archäologisches Landesamt Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig.)–– Volker Hilberg––