Background of Medieval House. Archaeological Excavation in Hradec Králové, Malé náměstí, čp. 116-118.

This paper deals with the material from the fecal cesspit, that was revealed in 1999 during the salvage excavations of the backyards of the houses number 116 - 118 on the Malé náměstí in Hradec Králové. The most common artefacts were kitchen and table pottery, tiles and in a small scale also glass and metal items. Beside these fragments of timber, which originally strengthened the walls of the cesspit, bones of domestic animals and plant macro remains, which giving us the information about the diet of the inhabitants of each house, have been found. The paper is accompanied by a catalogue of finds and the pictorial documentation. The processing of artefacts gave us a lot of information about the material culture and life in this part of medieval Hradec Králové. For more accurate image of the medieval situation the processing of all the material from the excavation is needed