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Zniszczony pochówek z zawieszką lunulowatą z Półwyspu Sambijskiego

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Skvorcov K. N.

Wiadomości Archeologiczne

2014

vol. LXV

issue 65

277-283

From the investigation of a cemetery in the locality Logvino in the northern area of the Sambian Peninusula (Fig. 1) made in 2012 and 2013 comes a gold lunula pendant, presumably an element of a grave inventory (‘assemblage 1’) from a destroyed female cremation burial (burials?). The pendant, decorated in a style characteristic for the Leuna-Hassleben horizon (Fig. 2), finds numerous analogies in finds from the territory of the Cherniakhiv Culture (Fig. 5). Except for the pendant, ‘assemblage 1’ consists of a silver buckle and silver rivetbosses from a belt, a fragment of a silver finger-ring, a fragment of a silver shield-headed bracelet and a fragment of a silver brooch with a returned foot (Fig. 3 & 4). All of them date to phase С2 of the Roman Period; their style suggests exchange between the local community and the people of the Wielbark Culture in the Elbląg Heights.

Nieznany skarb (?) z Leszna koło Łęczycy

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Małachowska S.

Wiadomości Archeologiczne

2003

vol. LVI

issue 56

125-129

The National Museum in Warsaw has in its keeping two silver lunula pendants ornamented with granulation, registered in inventory books as MN 237197 and 237198. An early 20th century label still visible on both specimens – 2678 – suggests that originally they formed part of a find discovered at Leszno, distr. Kutno, woj. łódzkie (Fig. l). It is known that in 1916 Wanda Troetzer from Warsaw offered the Museum a collection of finds originating from the landed estate at that locality. These included seven ornaments, seven silver and a single bronze coin, three pottery urns complete with their contents and some pottery fragments. The silver ornaments, coins and urns were entered under nos. 2678, 2679 and 2680–2682 respectively. The crescentic (lunula) pendants in question (Fig. 2, 3) belong to lunula type I variant I (M. Dekówna, E. Stattierówna 1961, p 59; S. Małachowska 1998, p. 74–82, fig. 26). Both are characterised by the presence of only three sheet bosses. Side faces of the main body of pendant no 1 (Fig. 2A, 3A) are decorated with a pattern of chevrons, apexes facing towards the centre of the pendant; lunula no 2 (Fig. 2C, 3B) features two pairs of hourglass motives. In both specimens suspension loops specimens are ornamented with several lozenges formed of minute grains. Similar motives also fill the horns of pendant no 2, and complete the ornament on the body of both pieces. Edges of the two lunulae from Leszno are bordered with fine smooth wire, lined on the inside with a row of granules. On the underside each specimen is fitted with a pair of reinforcing strips of silver sheet (Fig. 2B.D). The pendants from Leszno have analogies in specimens noted in hoards dated to the last quarter of the 10th – first decade of 11th c. (Dzierznica II, pow. Środa Wlkp., woj. wielkopolskie, Lisówka, pow. Międzyrzecz, woj. lubuskie, Sejkowice, pow. Gostynin, woj. mazowieckie, Obra Nowa, pow. Wolsztyn, woj. wielkopolskie, Alexanderhof, Kr. Prenzlau in Brandenburg, Germany, Grønby, parish Grønby in Scania, Sweden). The settlement complex situated in the region of the modern town of Łęczyca developed at the crossroads of important trade routes. The large number of silver hoards clustering in the area most probably may be associated with a period of prosperity enjoyed by the settlement complex in question during the 10th – 11th c. as a result of its favourable location. The locality of Leszno, in Kutno district, is recorded for the first time in documents in late 14th c. Silver ornaments discovered in the area could be associated with an overland route running from the Łęczyca communication node towards Płock. The lunula of interest probably formed part of a silver hoard discovered on the landed estate in Leszno, nearby the town of Kutno.

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