Pozostałości osadnictwa z wczesnej epoki żelaza i wczesnego średniowiecza odkryte w Wicku, pow. lęborski, stan. 2 (AZP 5-34/10)

• Authors: Rembisz-Lubiejewska Anna , Rozmarynowski Paweł

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The remains of early Iron Age and early Middle Ages settlements discovered in Wicko, Lębork district, site 2 (AZP 5-34/10)

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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During the survey and rescue research carried out in 2016-2018 on site 2 in Wicko (Fig. 1), the remains of settlements from the beginning of the Iron Age and the early Middle Ages were discovered. In total 49 features were unearthed (Fig. 3), two of which are dated to the beginning of the Iron Age and 34 to the early Middle Ages. The chronology of 13 pits was not determined. Source materials dated to Ha C (Fig. 5), although few (eight fragments of vessels, three flint products), constitute an important settlement context for the assemblage of bronze jewellery items discovered at the beginning of the 20th century (Fig. 2). Both the jewellery and the pottery vessel discovered on the site can be dated to the older Hallstatt period (Ha C), which in absolute chronology falls around 900-650 BC. The set of jewellery discovered in the lower parts of the slope could have been deposited by the inhabitants of the settlement in a marshy environment of the Charbrowska Struga branch flowing at the foot of it (Fig. 6). Unearthing of a few features (Fig. 4) indicates a significant devastation of the ‘Lusatian’ settlement during the long-term medieval settlement and intensive earthworks carried out in this area for over two millennia. The described traces of settlement from the beginning of the Iron Age constitute a smaller part of the source materials discovered during the conducted excavations. A much more numerous collection is represented by materials obtained from 32 early medieval features (Figs. 7-8), represented by 363 fragments of vessels, one spindle whorl and one lump of slag. They constitute an extremely interesting collection in terms of forms (Figs. 9-14), decoration and, above all, the coexistence of individual families of vessel types. In the analysed assemblage, vessel forms were distinguished with their equivalents in the families of types AB/Sukow, D/Mekendorf, G/Vipperow, H/Weisdin, J/Teterow and K/vessels with cylindrical neck. Based on the style of vessels within the studied space, two phases of settlement of the studied area in this period were distinguished. The older one was dated from the 7th to the mid-8th century, while the younger one, from the end of the 10th to the mid-11th century. It can be assumed that, together with the neighbouring sites in Wicko and Skarszewo, they form part of a larger settlement microregion limited by the backwaters of the Charbrowska Struga and the Białogardzka Struga (Fig. 15). The central point of the local settlement network was the stronghold in Białogarda that existed in the 8th-13th centuries. In the area crossed by rivers and their tributaries, communication and transport were carried out using stave boats. Several wrecks of such boats, dated from the end of the 10th to the 12th century, were once discovered in Żarnowska (formerly Czarnowsko) and in Charbrowo.

Keywords

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wczesna epoka żelaza; kultura łużycka; osadnictwo; skarb; wczesne średniowiecze; Pomorze Środkowe

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early Iron Age; Lusatian Urnfield culture; settlement; hoard; early Middle Ages; Central Pomerania

• Publisher: Muzeum Archeologiczne w Gdańsku
• Journal: Pomorania Antiqua
• Year: 2022
• Volume: Tom XXXI
• Pages: 87–110

Contributors

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Rembisz-Lubiejewska Anna

• Narodowe Muzeum Morskie w Gdańsku, Ołowianka 9-13, 0-751 Gdańsk

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Rozmarynowski Paweł

• ArcheoBaltica Kompleksowe Usługi Archeologiczne, ul. Drzymały 8/18, 78-100 Kołobrzeg