| Activity area (component) | Description | Activity ( x – automatically assigned) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| residential | mining | manufacture | communication | battle | cult | funerary | hoarding | isolated | residual finds | ||
| SETTLEMENT | general meaning, typical for agricultural prehistory | x | |||||||||
| camp | hunter-gatherers´ settlement | x | |||||||||
| farmstead | isolated settlement unit | x | |||||||||
| village | structured in space, social and legal status assumed | x | |||||||||
| special-community settlement | e.g. mineworkers´ settlement, barracks, etc. | x | |||||||||
| hill-top site | particular location, special function assumed | x | |||||||||
| SUPRACOMMUNITY AREA | may, but need not, include residential area | ||||||||||
| ditch enclosure | e.g. Neolithic rondel | ||||||||||
| hillfort | fortified area (stronghold) in a particular location, special function(s) assumed | x | |||||||||
| proto-urban settlement | concentration of residential and production activities; e.g. suburb | x | x | ||||||||
| town | spatially structured, fortification, specialised production, special legal status assumed | x | x | ||||||||
| monastery | x | x | |||||||||
| ELITE SETTLEMENT | x | ||||||||||
| curia/manorial farm | fortified area; for prehistory e.g. Viereckschanze | x | x | ||||||||
| fortified manor | lower elites´ medieval residence | x | x | ||||||||
| castle | higher elites´ medieval residence | x | x | ||||||||
| town palace | x | ||||||||||
| chateau/villa | x | ||||||||||
| CULT AREA | x | ||||||||||
| cult/ritual site | no built features | x | |||||||||
| cross | column shrines, calvary, conciliation cross | x | |||||||||
| chapel | x | ||||||||||
| church | x | ||||||||||
| synagogue | x | ||||||||||
| FUNERARY AREA | x | ||||||||||
| isolated burial | x | ||||||||||
| cemetery/graveyard | x | ||||||||||
| burial in church building | x | x | |||||||||
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