PUCK (SKARPA NADMORSKA), WOJ. POMORSKIE. BADANIA W ROKU 2011

• Authors: Nazaruk Ireneusz , Starski Michał

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Puck (Maritime Scarp), the Pomorskie Voivodeship. Excavations in 2011

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

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This year’s archaeological excavations in the location town in Puck were carried out directly beyond its outline, in the zone of today’s scarp at the coast of the bay, to the north of ul. F. Ceynowy (Site 1, AZP ‘Archeologiczne Zdjęcie Polski - Archaeological Record of Poland’ 04-42/31; Fig. 1). A 8x8 m trench was marked out, in order to examine the management of the coastal area, including a discovery of remains of the northern line of fortifications of Puck, which were hitherto unknown (fig. 2). Based on completed works, it can be said that originally this area gently declined towards the bay and in this place there was no clear and steep edge of Kępa Pucka (‘Puck Hillock’) (fig. 3:D). Until the 19th c., this area was situated at a small distance (up to a dozen or so metres) from the coast of the bay of that time. This allows to suppose that a convenient access to the bay was one of the factors which influenced the selection of this place for settlement purposes in the Early Middle Ages. The settlement of that time is confirmed by finds of pottery vessels from the 13 th c. In the Late Middle Ages this area was already managed in a permanent manner. This is testified to by the discovery of a small wooden residential building. It measured 4x3 m and it survived in a vestigial form (figs. 4, 5). It is dated to the 15th c., which implies the existence of buildings beyond the outline of the location town. It also allows to state that the buildings developed towards the bay. On the other hand, these were not expanded outskirts, but rather individual homesteads or workshops which functioned in the coastal zone. Two levels of these buildings were found. These were divided with a longitudinal cut, located on the E-W axis, along the entire trench (fig. 3:C). It cannot be excluded that this cut was made in the course of construction of ad hoc fortifications of Puck during the Thirteen Years War. A palisade was built on the side of the bay; later on, however, it was completely dismantled. As early as the first half of the 16th c. this area was not built up and it was used to dispose of garbage. In result of this, the level of the terrain increased about 1 m. The present-day scarp was formed only at the beginning of the 20th c. It was heightened about 1 m in its southern part and its edge was moved about 8 m to the north.

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Światowit
• Year: 2012
• Volume: Tom IX (L), fasc. B
• Pages: 343-348

Contributors

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Nazaruk Ireneusz

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Starski Michał

References

• BISKUP M., 1967 Trzynastoletnia wojna z Zakonem krzyżackim 1454-1466, Warszawa.
• STARSKI M., 2011 sprawozdanie z ratowniczych badań archeologicznych przeprowadzonych na działce miejskiej 200 przy ul.F. ceynowy w Pucku w 2011 roku, Warszawa (maszynopis w archiwum zakładu Archeologii Późnego Śred¬niowiecza i Czasów Nowożytnych IA UW).