PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Cymbalak, Tomasz
AU  - Řehák, Josef
TI  - The water supply of a post medieval citizen's house in Malá Strana, Prague
DP  - 2009 Dec 15
TA  - Staletá Praha
PG  - 66--80
VI  - 25
IP  - 2
AID - 10.56112/sp.2009.2.06
IS  - 02316056
AB  - A detailed analysis of one of the situations discovered during the rescue excavation in 2006-2008 on a house plot in the centre of Malá Strana in Prague. A post medieval system was revealed, which with its extent and construction features illustrates building development of the house as well as changes in water management of the settlement area. The exposed system of a water adit connected with a deep well had a complicated development, including a use of an earlier cistern within the house. The discovery is documented by specialists from several fields (archaeology, geology, dendrochronology, speleology) and is an example of building and sanitary technology of late 16th to 18th centuries. This find is the first fully published example of water system supplying a post medieval burgher's house by adits bringing water into a cistern.