Problematyka późnośredniowiecznych dworów na kopcu na Śląsku w świetle badań wykopaliskowych przeprowadzonych w 2009 r. w Bełczu Małym gm. Wąsosz

• Authors: Felix Biermann , Andreas Kieseler , Dominik Nowakowski

Title variants

DE

Ausgrabungen auf dem spätmittelalterlichen Turmhügel von Klein Beltsch in Niederschlesien (Bełcz Mały, gm. Wąsosz, woj. dolnośląskie)

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The paper concerns the question of research on small knight’s seats in Silesia. Results of excavations carried out in the area and in surroundings of the knight’s seat in Bełcz Mały gave rise to the research on the subject. There, the preserved complex is located on a small hill in the valley of the Barycz river, approximately 150 m northwest of the village. A quadrilateral embankment 55 x 60 m in size, surrounded by a moat 20 m wide and an outer rampart, is the main element of the castle. In the course of the excavations, cultural layers connected with an open settlement of the Lusatian culture, dated to the V phase of the Bronze Age and Hallstatt C, as well as early medieval material, dated generally to the 2nd half of the 11th – the 13th centuries, were exposed. The discovering of two phases of the knight’s seat in the type of the motte castle was the most important result of the excavations. The castle was built on the hill, elevated by the accumulation of material connected with an older settlement, just on the bank of the Barycz river. The main building, probably made of brick, as well as outbuildings, made of timber and clay, were erected at the courtyard surrounded by a palisade. On the basis of dendrochronological dating of wood samples and of the analysis of clay vessels, it can be determined that the castle functioned since the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries to around the third quarter of the 15th century. In the course of the excavations, relics of a wooden bridge, built over the river around the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries as well, were discovered.

Keywords

EN

Silesia; the Late Middle Ages; the knight’s seat

• Publisher: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Przegląd Archeologiczny
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 59
• Pages: 137-166

Contributors

author

Felix Biermann

• Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald Lehrstuhl für Ur- und Frühgeschichte Hans-Fallada-Str. 1 D-17487 Greifswald

author

Andreas Kieseler

• Graduiertenkollege Interdisziplinäre Umweltgeschichte Institut für Zoologie und Anthropologie Abteilung Historische Anthropologie und Humanökologie Bürgerstr. 50 D-37073 Göttingen

author

Dominik Nowakowski

• Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii PAN Ośrodek Badań nad Kulturą Późnego Antyku i Wczesnego Średniowiecza we Wrocławiu ul. Więzienna 6 50-118 Wrocław