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REALLY UNIQUE? ON THE SWORDS IN THE WEST BALT CIRCLE

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Kontny B.
Študijné zvesti
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2017
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issue 61
85 - 116
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The paper deals with the problem of swords in the West Balt Circle. It has been stated that they lack here almost entirely, with the exception for several swords known. The author opposes such idea, showing new materials proving the usage of swords in the Balt cultural milieu, specifically swords from bog sacrificial sites (Wólka, Czaszkowo) and elements of swords’ scabbards, fittings of baldric belts aimed to hang the scabbard, or sword’s handle fitting discovered in graves without swords themselves. That phenomenon is observed both in the Roman (the Bogaczewo culture and Dollkeim-Kovrovo culture) and Migration Period (the Olsztyn group). It seems to prove that Balts frequently avoided placement of swords in graves what could be expressed by the value of swords (see long usage of broken and then sharpened swords) or ritual matters/beliefs.
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WEKLICE, ST. 7, WOJ. WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE. BADANIA W ROKU 2009

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Kontny B., Natuniewicz-Sekuła M.
Światowit
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2009-2010
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vol. Tom VIII (XLIX), fasc. B
279-282
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The paper presents an excavation report from the Wielbark culture cemetery at Weklice, the Elbląg commune, Site 7, season 2009. Two trenches were dug out, 188 square metres in all with 18 inhumation and 1 urn cre- mation grave, dated from Phase B2 to Phase C2. In a few cases log coffins were traced, made of oak wood. Inhumation graves No. 545, 546, 555 are ofspecial interest as human remains were not in anatomical order despite complete furnishing having been found there (so probably they were not robbed and different phenomena resulted in their disturbance, e.g., re-opening of the graves during post-funeral rituals or burrowing animals activity). As refers to the relics one should enumerate a glass vessel from Grave 552 (Fig. 1). It is dated to Phase C2 (a strap end Type Raddatz JII3, clay vessels Type Wołągiewicz VIB and XVIIID). It is close to Type M0llegardsmarken 1566, popular in Denmark but produced in Rheinland work- shops. Another unique find is a small knife from Grave 562 (fig. 2), made of bronze and ornamented with a zigzag line. It is also dated to Phase C2 (i.a., an antler comb Type Thomas I, glass and amber beads).
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Zaskakujące znalezisko z wczesnego okresu wędrówek ludów z Gdańska

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Kontny B., Wadyl S.
Pomorania Antiqua
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2017
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vol. Tom XXVI
s. 165-176
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In 2009 during rescue excavations at the 11th–12th c. stronghold in Gdańsk (Fig. 1) a silver gilded item was found, decorated in chip-charving technique (Fig. 2). It shows similaries to the ornament represented on brooches of the Świlcza variety (Fig. 3) and belt buckles with rhombic ferrule of group after A. Rau (Fig. 4) which let us to date it to Phases D2 or D2/D3 according to J. Tejral. However it served not as a fibula or belt buckle. We propose to identify the item as a horse harness element, specifically headgear ferrule (for parallels see Figs. 5 and 6). We deal with another specimen which sheds the light on the post-Wielbark culture milieu.
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Mirosław Pietrzak (1932–2024)

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Tuszyńska M., Kontny B.
Pomorania Antiqua
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2024
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vol. Tom XXXIII
269-285
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Finds of Purse Fastenings from the Iron Age ‘Central Place’ at Gąski-Wierzbiczany in Kuyavia (Central Poland)

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Kontny B., Rudnicki M.
Acta Archaeologica Carpathica
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2016
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vol. LI
307-318
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Recent discoveries from the Kuyavia region provided a number of finds that change our perception of the continuity of inhabitation in the Kuyavia area after the disappearance of the Przeworsk culture settlement structures related to the Pre-Roman and Roman Periods. The settlement in Kuyavia existed also during the Migration Period at least until the 7th c. The settlement complex in Gąski-Wierzbiczany, from which the belt purse fastenings presented in the following paper came, seems to be of particular importance. The fastenings are dated to the 2 nd half of the 4 th and the beginnings of the 5 th c., i.e., the decline of the Late Roman Period and the onset of the Migration Period. Until recently, they were known from the areas neighbouring the Roman Empire boundary — limes — and from Roman military camps in Rhaetia. Currently, their list significantly extended, and the range of their occurrence expanded and includes the east Germany and Bohemia. At the same time the finds form Kuyavia (most likely made on-the-spot) are among specimens located furthest to the east. It seems that these unique finds of purse fastenings from the south-eastern and eastern peripheries of Europe might be explained through the existence of a cultural centre in Kuyavia that facilitated the propagation of western cultural patterns, in this case related to outfit of warriors
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