Suchań 2014 - end of excavation season

2014.09.05 -

The second season of excavation at Suchań, distr. Stargard, is now over. This year, 600 m2 were explored, resulting in the discovery of eight settlement features of Oksywie archaeological culture from the Late Pre-Roman Period (2nd-1st cc. BC): a pit-house, three hearths, a recessed feature interpreted as the slag pit of a furnace, alternately, an element of a blacksmith’s forge, confirming metalworking activity in the region during the Late Pre-Roman Period. The modest finds inventory includes two spindlewhorls, an ornamented loomweight, and many fragments pottery, some with a facetted rim, a feature which is characteristic for 2nd and 1st cc. BC ceramics. Samples were taken from the feature context for palaeobotanical analysis. The archaeological record from Suchań is similar to findings from settlement sites of the Oksywie culture identified in the valleys of the Parsęta and the Wieprza rivers. No features or artefacts were found to document occupation during other periods of prehistory and the medieval period. Presumably, any features of Migration Period age, like almost everywhere in the drainage basins of the Odra and the Vistula, had been obliterated by denudation processes and/or modern period land use.