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Cemeteries attributed to the Wielbark culture – similarly to all other cemeteries – could be divided into this well- and poorly equipped. It is interesting, however, while in some cemeteries there are at least a couple of lavishly equipped graves, in others – even located in the close neighbourhood – poorly equipped graves dominate. This phenomenon has been observed in several cases and is difficult to explain with the current state of research. It seems that the differences in equipment at various cemeteries reflect the social stratification and the fact that groups of various economic statuses cohabited in the near vicinity.
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The four reconstructed urns proved very similar in shape and style, as well as manufacturing technique, suggesting a single workshop as their place of production. The clay used for the wheel-made vessels must have been fired in low temperatures. A comparative analysis was pursued on: (1) morphology; (2) style and ornamentation, and (3) technological execution, taking into consideration mainly chemical and mineralogical composition of used clay. Foremost, the vessels were observed to be very close in form. The vessel surface was mostly smooth and matt, a color of the clay suggesting an oxidizing technology of firing with reduced flow of oxygen in the last phase. The urns were executed of bands of clay 2- 4 cm wide, the bottoms of the vessels bearing evidence of being cut from the potter's wheel. Clay composition of six vases was very similar, the clay containing predominating minerals: quartz which dominated the matrix, orthoclase, indeterminable minerals rich in iron and albite. Grain-size was varying in diameter: larger than 0.2 mm to under 0.05 mm. The manufacturing technique and the matrix composition suggests that all vases were made in the same local (?) workshop. The results of analysis showed very close similarities between the clay composition of the locally hand-made and wheel-made vessels. It should be assumed that the both were manufactured in a local pottery workshop. The dating proved the most interesting . Two urns contained bronze fibulae characteristic of the B2/C1 phase - the oldest well-evidenced set of wheel-made ware from the territory of Wielbark Culture. A few similar pots occurred solely in the area between the Vistula and Pasleka rivers. This set of finds testifies to a workshop making wheel-made pottery having operated in the Elblag Heights sometime at the turn of the Early and Late Roman periods in the area. 9 Figures.
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On the maps illustrating the situation during Roman and Pre-Roman Iron Age the lower Orzyc region (located about 70 km north of Warsaw) was until recent considered as an empty area. Excavations and a series of accidental discoveries in the past 20 years revealed in this area the existence of at least 9 settlements and cemeteries located in close neighbourhood. Among many research problems related to this concentration of settlements, one of the most interesting is the question of the disappearance of the Przeworsk culture representatives and the appearance of the first settlers of the Wielbark culture at the turn of the early and Late Roman Iron Age. The last ones arrived probably from the area of today's northern Greater Poland. For some time, the populations of both cultures probably lived together in the Lower Orzyc region. This can be said due to the dating of related materials and graves with elements characteristic for both cultures.
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A silver shield-head bracelet and a silver eastern-type spring-cover fibula were found in Otaslavice through metal detector survey. Both artefacts are closely related to finds attributed to the Wielbark culture. Their dating conforms of phase B2a or the second third of the 2nd c., respectively.
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