In Pardubice, Czechia, archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of a 14th-century street during construction near the historical Green Gate. The East Bohemian Museum excavation revealed wooden street reinforcements that exemplified medieval techniques for stabilizing urban streets. Artifacts like ceramic fragments suggest the site's dating precedes the arrival of the Pernštejn family. This discovery is significant as it provides some of the oldest material evidence from the city center, presenting challenges for accurately mapping the city’s medieval layout due to limited findings and later construction damage.
According to the layering and the nature of the material finds, such as ceramic fragments, it's clear we are in the 14th century-so Pardubice before the arrival of the Pernštejn family.
It was most likely a street, but due to the small exposed area we can't rule out that the wooden surface might have been more extensive.
These finds are essentially the oldest material we can uncover in the city's historic centre, making it difficult to precisely describe the city's layout in the 14th century.
Such techniques were common in medieval Europe to make urban streets passable through wetlands or unstable terrain.
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