Abstract
In 1971, an extensive rescue archaeological excavation was carried out on the north-eastern edge of today's Old Town of Prague, the results of which have so far been published only in a preliminary form. The most detailed elaboration so far (Ječný - Olmerová 1992, 21-70) divided the history of the monitored locality into nine development phases.
The aim of the presented text is to make more detailed access (and at the same time revision) to those research results that relate to the two oldest phases of the development of the local settlement. The specific questions we ask are directed to the time before the construction of the walls of the future Old Town and the command of the Order of the Teutonic Knights built at the same time.
This is an issue associated with the beginnings of settlement, the center of which was the construction of the Romanesque church of St. Benedict.
At the next level, the article can be a discussion contribution to a wide range of issues related to the possibilities (and manner) of new processing and publication of older research.