Published: 2024-12-17

New deposit of the early medieval Axe-Like Iron Bars from settlement at Brzesko, site 16-17, Lesser Poland Voievodship

Bartłomiej Sz. Szmoniewski , Anna Lasota-Kuś , Andrzej Lach , Mateusz Okoński
Sprawozdania Archeologiczne
Section: Field Survey and Materials
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/SA/76.2024.2.3852

Abstract

The article discusses the rare find of a deposit of 38 ax-like iron bars from Brzesko, Site 16-17 (Lesser Poland Voivodedship). Each of them was forged out of iron in the form of an oblong axe with a short blade. Lugs on a part of the items form cups. The characteristic shape of the preserved fragments allows for including them in the type of Lesser Poland bars, also called Vistula’s bars. These items differ from the Greater Moravian type known from territories south of the Carpathian Mountains. They were discovered in feature 286. In the fill, only a few pottery fragments have been found. In light of the analogy of rims and analogous finds from Lesser Poland and Great Moravia, this complex can be dated to the period between the mid-9th century and the beginning of the 10th century, or its first half.

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Iron axe-liked bars, Lesser Poland, Early Middle Ages

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Szmoniewski, B. S., Lasota-Kuś, A., Lach, A., & Okoński, M. (2024). New deposit of the early medieval Axe-Like Iron Bars from settlement at Brzesko, site 16-17, Lesser Poland Voievodship . Sprawozdania Archeologiczne, 76(2), 341–367. https://doi.org/10.23858/SA/76.2024.2.3852

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