Excavations

location: GPS: 50 ° 55 "16" N, 3 ° 7 "41" E // northern flank of the silver mountain - roeselare, height 39 - 45m
period of the investigation: 26/03/2002 - 28/04/2006
C14 dating on the charcoal soil samples by the royal institute for the art heritage: mainly 2290-2130 BC. and partly 690-890 AD.
research team of amateur archaeologists grouped under V.O.B.o.W. (Association for Archaeological Soil Research West Flanders)
and WAR (Workgroup Archeology Roeselare) // general management: jozef goderis

Findings

main find: 28 multi-line pile traces of a settlement, situated in the transition from the end of the New Stone Age (Neolithic) to the Bronze Age // other: tools in flint / flint, potsherds from the Gallo-Roman period and the Middle Ages.

Decision

nomads traveled over the silver mountain for centuries as hunters - gatherers // they depended entirely on what nature had to offer them at the end of the new stone age, farmers and pastoralists settled here permanently

Contemporary visualization

metal pillars now stand on the found pile tracks of the structure in wood and straw, not as a reconstruction, but as a "memory of" a contemporary installation by the "art in situ team"                                                                                                

panorama zilverberg with the archeosite at the fore