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Excavating the cave at Kroczyce – end of season 2013
2013.08.05 -
28 July was the last day of the archaeological fieldwork at Kroczyce, distr. Zawiercie. We succeeded, not without some heavy labour, to reach the occupation level from the Roman Period and the Migration Period in the main chamber of the cave. After removing parts of a massive spoil heap left behind by calcite prospectors and treasure hunters, including tons of very large rock fragments, some …
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Suchań 2013 – end of the excavation season
2013.08.05 -
On 28 July – end of the archaeological fieldwork season 2013 at Suchań. The investigation helped identify the western margin of the Migration Period settlement associated presumably with a short-lived presence of arrivals from Scandinavia, most likely form Bornholm; this is indicated by pottery finds and the earlier recovered metal finds. Samples were taken to verify the chronology of t…
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Excavating the cave at Kroczyce – end of July 2013 update
2013.08.05 -
Archaeological work during the first three weeks of the investigation mostly involved extracting the cave deposit and processing it by flotation to recover tiny artefacts, breaking up and removing larger boulders, securing the cave entrance and ceiling. Small finds included a few hundred fragments of pottery (post-medieval, medieval, Roman and Migration Period, Bronze and Early Iron Age), a clay …
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News from Suchań
2013.08.05 -
Half way through the fieldwork at Suchań we can now report on the first results: several small pits discovered in the excavation trench contained pottery dated to the mature Migration Period. This is actually quite an important piece of good news as it confirms that the deposit containing Scandinavian bracteats and pendants may have been hidden within a settlement then in use. Samples (microeleme…
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Suchań, Pomerania, 2013
2013.07.10 -
On 1 July, with the permit from the regional branch of the Monuments Protection Office in Szczecin in hand, we started a regular archaeological excavation at Suchań, distr. Stargard Szczeciński, on the site of discovery of archaeological objects from 6th-century AD provenanced to Bornholm (Scandinavian bracteats, pendants, brooches etc.). As agreed earlier with the University of Warsaw, the field…
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Excavating the cave at Kroczyce in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland – progress report July 2013
2013.07.10 -
Equipped with the necessary permits (obtained from the regional branch of the Monuments Protection Office in Częstochowa and the Regional Directorate of Environment Protection in Katowice) on 27 June we started the long-awaited archaeological excavation inside the cave at Kroczyce and in its immediate vicinity (area protected under the EU Natura 2000 network). The leader of the excavation team is…
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Thessaloniki, Greece, 2013
2013.07.10 -
Project team members Prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Latałowa and Dr Joanna Święta-Musznicka participated in the 16th Conference of the International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany held 17-22 June in Thessaloniki where they presented a poster Tracking Environmental Changes Between Odra and Vistula Rivers in the Migration Period (authors: M. Latałowa, A. Pędziszewska, J. Święta-Musznicka, M. Zimny, A. …
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Excavation 2013
2013.06.23 -
Suchań 2013 Already in July we begin the excavation in Suchań – multi-cultural settlement in Pomerania. The excavation will be continued for at least next three years. Dr Bartłomiej Rogalski will be responsible for managing and leading excavation, as well as for supervising a group of 15 student from the Institute of Archaeology from the University of Warsaw. Professor Aleksa…
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Team members meeting in Nieborów
2013.04.30 -
The Project Team members met at Nieborów on 15-16 April 2013 for their annual meeting. Day One opened with a presentation given by Anna Zapolska on the subject of the Project web page, its potential as a tool for cooperation of the Project Team members, collecting data, sharing pdf files, photographs and drafts of written contributions, etc. The Project Leader addresse…
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The Hanging Cave - winter report
2013.02.11 -
Despite the wintry weather work is already under way to make ready for the approaching archaeological investigation of the cave at Jastrzębnik ("Hanging Cave"). On Monday, 27 January, the specialist team had a meeting with the Project Leader, Professor Aleksander Bursche – first, in Cracow, next, in the cave itself. Present at the two meetings were Andrzej Ciszewski, Director and …