Relics of a mediaeval mill in Nasielsk

Abstract

In 2004 works in a former dairy in Nasielsk revealed a number of 3.5-metre-long timber piles vertically positioned in peat. In archaeological research several dozen piles were docu-mented in situ; some were taken out for dentrochronological dating. It was established that the piles used to support beams forming a pier. The excavations also uncovered a red granite mill-stone. The finds were dated to the first half of the 15th c., which makes it feasible to identify them as relics of a mill built in that place by Jakusza of Radzanowo, the owner of Nasielsk and of large estates in the region, castellan of Liw from 1402 and of Ciechanów in the years 1409–1427. The enterprise may have been continued by his son Piotr, who inherited the town after the death of his father in 1427.