Published: 2021-11-21

Louis de Fleury and the early medieval cemetery sites with cist graves in the Kolno Upland

Michał Dzik
Archeologia Polski
Section: Studies
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/APol66.2021.008

Abstract

In 1892, amateur archaeologist Louis de Fleury became interested in cemetery sites with graves of stone structure located in northeastern Masovia, where he excavated about 20 graves in different localities. A report from this work was presented to the Imperial Archaeological Commission in Petersburg. The sites in question were nearly all destroyed in the next few dozen years making de Fleury’s work the sole source of data on these burial grounds and by the same also on the burial customs of the people living in the 11th–12th centuries in this borderland, Prussian on one hand and Rus’ on the other. Very little of this material has been published over the 130 years since de Fleury’s time and much of it is incomplete and often erroneous. This in-depth study of de Fleury’s results demonstrates their significance for understanding settlement processes in the Kolno Upland in the second half of the 11th and the first half of the 12th c.

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Louis de Fleury, Kolno Upland, Kokoszki, Kotówek, Ruś, Pieńki-Okopne, Polish–Rus’ borderland, migration archaeology, stone-structure graves, early medieval period

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Dzik, M. (2021). Louis de Fleury and the early medieval cemetery sites with cist graves in the Kolno Upland. Archeologia Polski, 66, 119–182. https://doi.org/10.23858/APol66.2021.008

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