Jędrzychowice
Jędrzychowice, Oława district, Lower Silesian Voivodeship (German Höckricht, Kr. Ohlau), site of discovery in 1831 during ploughing (no recorded context) of an assemblage (fig. 1.) interpreted at first as a grave inventory attributed in the past variously as female or male (from small bone fragments) at present as a ritual deposit (Totenopfer) characteristic for →Huns . The assemblage included: a Hunnic bronze cauldron, type Höckricht, with simple handles reminiscent of type Osoka; a bronze drinking cup; 2 bronze buckles; 6 gold plaques, some in →Polychrome Style (interpreted as fragments of a diadem reused as belt mounts or buckle plates; 2 gold tongue-shaped strap-ends →Tongue-shaped strap-end, repoussé, ornamented with filigree wire design; gold oval shoe buckle (?) with a rectangular plate in →Polychrome Style ; 2 silver fragments. Chronology: phase D (first half of 5th c.). The cauldron from J. with a fragment of another, from Opava Silesia (Razová nr. Horní Benešov, Lichnovo, Bruntál distr.), belongs in the group of northernmost finds of this type of object (others cluster on the Middle Danube and in the Carpathian Basin).
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Literature: E. Krause, Der Fund von Höckricht, Kreis Ohlau, "Schlesiens Vorzeit in Bild und Schrift N. F." 3, 1904, p. 46-50; J. Werner, Beiträge zur Archäologie des Attila-Reiches, Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philologisch-historische Klasse NF 38A-B, München 1956, p. 59-62, Tab. 27:1-10, 64:1-11; I. Bóna, Das Hunnenreich, Stuttgart 1991, p. 140, 242, Fig. 16; K. Godłowski, Das „Fürstengrab” des 5. Jhs. und der „Fürstensitz” in Jakuszowice in Südpolen, [in:]: F. Vallet, M. Kazanski (Ed.), La noblesse romaine et les chefs Barbares du IIIe au VIIe siécle, Paris 1995, p. 155, 162; O. J. Maenchen-Helfen, Die Welt der Hunnen, Wiesbaden 1997, p. 223-224; B. Anke, Studien zur reiternomadischen Kultur des 4. bis 5. Jahrhunderts. Teil 1-2, Beitrage zur Ur- und Fruhgeschichte Mitteleuropas 8, Weissbach 1998, p. 51, Tab. 101; J. Tejral, Nové poznatky k nálezu "hunského" kotle z Razové, "Acta historica et museologica Universitatis Silesianae Opaviensis" 5, 2000, s. 157, 161, Fig. 4; P. Kaczanowski, J. Rodzińska-Nowak, Hunowie na ziemiach polskich. Próba podsumowania problematyki, [in:] Peregrinationes archaeologicae in Asia et Europa Joanni Chochorowski dedicatae, Kraków 2012, p. 373; M. Mączyńska, Światło z popiołu. Wędrwówki ludów w Europie w IV i V w., Warszawa 2013, p. 78, 122; A. Bursche, J. Kowalski (ed.), Barbarzyńskie Tsunami - Okres Wędrówek Ludów w dorzeczu Odry i Wisły, Warszawa-Szczecin 2017.
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Fig. 1. Selected finds from Jędrzychowice (I. Bona 1991).
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Phot. 2. Hunnic cauldron (copy) from a grave or a sacrificial burial found at Jędrzychowice (Dolnośląskie Voivodeship; phot. T. Gąsior)
