Migration Period
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A study visit in Bornholm

2015.07.07 -

On 19–26 April 2015 the MPOV Project took me to the Bornholm Museum in Rønne on a preliminary survey of its collections. Thanks to the kindness of Finn–Ole Nielsen of the Bornholm Museum, and to the transport offered by the research team from the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw (Marta Bura and Janusz Janowski), I could search for analogies to →Migration Period artefacts known from Poland. It was particularly important to identify parallels for the recently published finds from north-central Poland (the historic region of Kuyavia), e.g., the site at →Gąski. My discoveries include a series of →bow brooches (e.g., from →Sorte Muld) with a rectangular head, a lozengic foot and round discs on terminals, analogical to the brooch find from Radziejów Kujawski, recorded quite a time ago but previously lacking good analogies. The motif of crescents, observed on some finds from Kuyavia, was identified on a brooch find from Brændsgård, a form close to type Skowarcz. The cicada brooch from Store Dalbygård appears to be the northernmost find of this form. These are only some examples of what turned out to be a rich “catch” providing a significant cultural background for the recent finds from Poland and confirming the importance of contacts between our region and Scandinavia during the →Migration Period.

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