page_title: Market Hall (Rotterdam)
section_title: Archaeological site
hierarchical_section_title: Market Hall (Rotterdam) / Archaeological site
caption_attribution_description: Digging up the settlement of Rotta which was washed away by the waves in the 12th Century. After the land was protected by a system of dikes and a dam across the river Rotte the modern town of Rotterdam was formed on the same spot. The yellow stakes show the outline of the walls of a farm built on top of a small artificial mound from the later stages of Rotta. In front of that on a lower level an archaeologist is working on a wall from a farm from an earlier stage. Digging up the settlement of Rotta which was washed away by the waves in the 12th Century. After the land was protected by a system of dikes and a dam across the river Rotte the modern town of Rotterdam was formed on the same spot. The yellow stakes show the outline of the walls of a farm built on top of a small artificial mound from the later stages of Rotta. In front of that on a lower level an archaeologist is working on a wall from a farm from an earlier stage.
context_page_description: The Markthal is a residential and office building with a market hall underneath, located in Rotterdam.
  The building was opened on October 1, 2014, by Queen Máxima of the Netherlands. Besides the large market hall, the complex houses 228 apartments, 4600 m² retail space, 1600 m² horeca and an underground 4-storey parking garage with a capacity of 1200+ cars.
context_section_description: The Markthal is built on top of a fourteenth-century buried village in the Polder of Westnieuwland. This polder was surrounded by water and dykes to protect the polder during high-tide. There were a few houses and farms in this polder, also at the site of the Markthal.
  During the building of the Markthal, a tenth-century farm was found 7 metres under the ground. Within the house were two stoves and a few fireplaces. The farm was part of a village before Rotterdam, named Rotta, after the river Rotte. The inhabitants of Rotta were farmers, craftsmen and traders. Earlier, a small settlement from the fourteenth-century was found on the site.
  Several foundations on the site are now exhibited next to the central staircases underneath the Markthal.
caption: An archaeologist next to a buried farm (in Rotta [nl]), at the site of The Market Hall.
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