Z DZIEJÓW BADAN WCZESNOŚREDNIOWIECZNYCH CMENTARZYSK Z GROBAMI W OBUDOWACH KAMIENNYCH W MIĘDZYRZECZU BUGU I NARWI

• Authors: Dzik Michał

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FROM THE STUDY OF EARLY MEDIAEVAL CEMETERY SITES WITH GRAVES IN STONE SETTINGS ON THE Narew and Bug rivers, Eastern Poland

• Languages of publication: PL EN

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The article discusses errors which continue to circulate in publications concerned with Early Mediaeval cemetery sites with graves in stone settings in the area between the Bug and Narew rivers. Among the rich crop produced by more than a century and a half of research the essential and probably the most exhaustive works area those of N.P. Avenarius (1890), F. Pokrovski (1895), K. Musianowicz (1960) and L. Rauhut (1971). It is worth noting that they may not be as authoritative as previously thought. It is interesting that N.P. Avenarius mentions 25 Early Medieval sites with graves in stone settings but just five years later F. Pokrovski refers to 38 such sites, and in 1960 and 1971 respectively, K. Musianowicz and L. Rauhut are familiar with not less than 47. This appreciable increase might result from progress in research but, on occasion, also from errors in interpretation of data drawn from the research of others. For instance, F. Pokrovski listed no less than nine cemeteries unknown to N.P. Avenarius and gave their loca- tion as villages of Cecele, Kłyzówka, Maćkowicze, Mielnik, Mińczewo, Putkowice, Saki, Sytki and Wólka zamkowa. It is significant that as his source F. Pokrovski quotes N.P. Avenarius, or more precisely, the map included in his publication (Fig. 1). However, a comparison of the names of villages shown on the map by N.P. Avenarius with sites known to F. Pokrovski reveals that the latter took all the localities where any sort of cemetery had been identified (indicated as such on the map of N.P. Avenarius) and published them as cemeteries with graves in stone settings. We know of other similar lapses. Over the years, the number of sites recorded incorrectly as Early Mediaeval cemeteries with graves in stone settings has grown to at least fifteen.

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Światowit
• Year: 2012
• Volume: Tom VII (XLVIII), fasc. B
• Pages: 37-42

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Dzik Michał