A new volume of the NIhK journal ‘Siedlungs- und Küstenforschung’ has been delivered!

The freshly printed volume 47 of the SKN was reviewed in the NIhK hall. From left to right: Editor: Prof. Dr Hauke Jöns, Publisher Marie Leidorf: Dr Bert Wiegel, Authors: Martha Görlitz and Christina Peek (Photo: Selina Pohl, NIhK).

On 16 April 2025, the publisher Marie Leidorf handed over the freshly printed volume 47 of the journal SKN, published by the NIhK, to the Institute's library. It contains six articles presenting current research on agriculture, burial culture and textiles in the pre- and protohistoric coastal area of the North Sea as well as underwater archaeological investigations on a warship from the First World War. The thematic focus of the volume is on investigations into textile production in the late Roman period. The article is dedicated to the detailed analysis of spindle whorl finds recovered during the excavations of the famous village of Feddersen Wierde. These investigations were carried out by Martha Görlitz and accepted as her master's thesis by the University of Göttingen in 2024. The thesis was also awarded the VHG Foundation for Archaeology study prize. As a result, this research, which can now be read in the present volume, has not only made it possible to formulate new results about the organisation of the spinning craft on the Wurt, but also to make unexpected statements about the changing spinning techniques over the course of the Roman Iron Age.