Roman Water Pipeline Approved for 'Adoption' - Public engagement, awareness and benefit from a development-led archaeology project (original) (raw)

Cite this as: Claßen, E. and Vollmer-König, M. 2021 Roman water pipeline approved for 'adoption' - Public engagement, awareness and benefit from a development-led archaeology project, Internet Archaeology 57. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.57.2

Figure 1: The well-preserved section of the Roman water pipeline near Hürth-Hermülheim during excavation. (A. Thieme/ArchaeoNet GbR)

Figure 2: Dividing the Roman water pipeline into manageable sections. (C. Ulbert/ArchaeoNet GbR)

Figure 3: Ready for transportation. (Z. Görür/ArchaeoNet GbR)

Figure 4: Placing a segment of the Roman water pipeline close to its find spot in the embankment of the new road. (M. Zanjani/LVR-State Service for Archaeological Heritage)

Figure 5: Digital elevation model of the southern part of the Lower Rhine Embayment with major towns and rivers, showing the course of the 'Eifelwasserleitung' (dark blue) and fixed future locations (black) of the sections recovered near Hürth (red). The re-installed pieces near the excavation site are not plotted neither is one re-installation far from the site, for reasons of scale. (E. Claßen, I. Herzog/LVR-State Service for Archaeological Heritage; base map: © Geobasis NRW)

Figure 6: Trainee from the Cologne Chamber of Crafts during the restoration of a segment of the water pipeline. (Th. Sieverding)

Figure 7: Final re-installation of a section of the Roman water pipeline with canopy and information panel at the Heilig-Geist-Gymnasium in Würselen. (M. Zanjani/LVR-State Service for Archaeological Heritage)