Excavating the cave at Kroczyce – end of July 2013 update
2013.08.05 -
Archaeological work during the first three weeks of the investigation mostly involved extracting the cave deposit and processing it by flotation to recover tiny artefacts, breaking up and removing larger boulders, securing the cave entrance and ceiling. Small finds included a few hundred fragments of pottery (post-medieval, medieval, Roman and Migration Period, Bronze and Early Iron Age), a clay spindlewhorl, flints, metal shavings from the forgery of copper boratynka coinage and abundant palaeozoological material. Work carried out outside the cave, close to its entrance, yielded isolated sherds, some of them from Krausengefäße pottery.
The site was visited by a team of palaeobotanists from the University of Gdańsk led by Professor Małgorzata Latałowa to advise on the taking of paleobotany samples. Other guests and participants of the fieldwork included Institute of Archaeology UW staff members (Dr Wojciech Wróblewski, Dr Andrzej Maciałowicz, Dr Małgorzata Kot, Ludwika Jończyk, Magda Woińska and others) and Dr Adam Degler from the Ossoliński National Institute in Wrocław.
Incidentally, we have learned that the cave is known locally as ‘Hanging Cave’, from the 1946 execution of a WIN member.
The Photographs are by M. Rudnicki
