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Dwa znaleziska skandynawskich zapinek płytkowych z terenów północnej Polski

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Rudnicki M.

Wiadomości Archeologiczne

2014

vol. LXV

issue 65

283-290

The settlement in site II at Tałty, Mrągowo County, discovered by accident before World War II, lies about 1 km to the south of the town Mikołajki, on the shore of Lake Mikołajskie (Fig. 1). The site came under a rescue excavation in 2001. A metal detector survey of the site resulted in the discovery of a bronze bow brooch with a head and foot decorated with stylised representations of animal heads (Fig. 2, 3:1a.b). This brooch appears to be a simplified variant, or an imitation, of an ornate brooch found at Stora Gairvide on Gotland (Fig. 3:2). The Tałty brooch would confirm evident Scandinavian influence exerted on the manufacture of bow brooches by the people of the Olsztyn Group during the Late Migration Period which are observed also in other brooches from Masuria (Fig. 4). Another, fragmented brooch (Fig. 6:1a.b) was discovered by accident in northern Greater Poland at Brzostowo, Piła County (Fig. 5). It is likely to be a derivative of richly decorated relief brooches, forms that are mostly recorded in Denmark (Fig. 6:2.3). Both brooches may be dated not earlier than to the second quarter of the 6th century. Despite sharing a link with Scandinavia they probably reflect different processes. The brooch from Tałty may be interpreted as a result of South-Eastern Scandinavian impact on the Olsztyn Group, which was developing vigorously during the 6th century. The brooch fragment from Brzostowo would document the movement of human groups down the route running from southern Scandinavia to the region lying south of the Carpathian range.

Unikatowa zapinka z Rajszewa, pow. legionowski. Przyczynek do studiów nad sytuacją kulturową w okresie wędrówek ludów na Mazowszu

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Dulęba P., Woińska M.

Wiadomości Archeologiczne

2020

vol. LXXI

issue 71

400-405

In January 2018, a plate brooch from the Migration Period, found in the village of Rajszew near Warsaw, was presented to the Historical Museum in Legionowo (Fig. 1, 2). It represents Animal Style I (B. Salin 1904, 214–245). Anthropo- and/or zoomorphic imagery on the head enables its attribution to phase B of said style (G. Haseloff 1981, 180–196). Metallurgical analyses showed that the body was cast from a copper alloy. The pin was also made from a copper alloy but containing a different share of this chemical element (Table 1). It is currently not possible to indicate an unambiguous analogy to the artefact presented. A bronze brooch discovered in grave A9 at the site of Malaâ Lipovka, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia (Fig. 4:1), dated to the first half of the 6th century (M. Rudnicki, K. Skvortsov, P. Szymański 2015, 592), seems the most similar. The shape of protrusions with representations of animal heads decorating the head and foot of the Rajszew brooch is the most similar to corresponding elements of a brooch found in Stora Gairvide on Gotland (Fig. 4:2), dated to the first half of the 6th century (M. Rudnicki 2014a, 285). The brooch has a rectangular head with relief decoration and four protrusions. Other specimens with similarly decorated rectangular heads and foot terminals come from Tałty, Mrągowo County, a stray find (Fig. 4:3), Tumiany, Olsztyn County, grave 37 (Fig. 4:4), and Babięta, Mrągowo County, grave 109 (M. Rudnicki 2014a, 283–287). These analogies do not allow us to indicate whether the Rajszew brooch was an import from the area of the Olsztyn Group or from Scandinavia. Head decoration in the form of stylised protrusions appears in both of these regions. However, the brooches differ in proportions and size – Masurian specimens are smaller. Such is also the case with the analysed example.

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Dwa znaleziska skandynawskich zapinek płytkowych z terenów północnej Polski

Unikatowa zapinka z Rajszewa, pow. legionowski. Przyczynek do studiów nad sytuacją kulturową w okresie wędrówek ludów na Mazowszu