Konarzew
Konarzew, Łęczyca district, hoard of coins, silver jewellery and dress fittings, complete and fragmented, and other objects, discovered by accident in 1937, possibly earlier. It included an unknown number of gold and silver coins, two of them pierced denarii of Commodus (one for Crispina), →solidi of Honorius and Valentinian III (2 specimens) and a silver coin (half-siliqua?) of Zeno (presumably →Ostrogothic), the heads of two silver five-knobbed bow brooches, two gilded silver buckles (an early Animal Style form and a specimen with a round frame), two gilded silver buckle prongs, a silver strap-end with a swallow-tail terminal, a fragment of a silver bracelet, a silver earring with an angular terminal, four fragments of silver wire, a silver square-sectioned bar, the head of a silver rivet, 4 fragments of decorated silver sheet, presumably from a cut up Late Antique vessel. The deposit is dated to 5th/6th century and belongs in the hacksilver hoard horizon. Some of the objects from the hoard are now in the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography in Łódź, the solidi are in the State Archaeological Museum in Warsaw.
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Literature: E. Petersen, Die ostelbische Raum als germanisches Kraftfeld im Lichte der Bodenfunde des 6.–8. Jahrhunderts, Leipzig 1939, p. 74-76, fig. 109, 110; E. Petersen, Zum völkerwanderungszeitlichen Hortfund von Konarzew, Kr. Lentschütz (jetzt Reichsgau Wartherland), Nachrichtenblatt für deutsche Vorzeit, vol. 16, 1940, p. 278-279; A. Mikołajczyk, Zbiory numizmatyczne Muzeum Archeologicznego i Etrnograficznego w Łodzi, Prace i Materiały Muzeum Archeologicznego i Etnograficznego w Łodzi. Seria Numizmatyczna, vol. 1, 1982, p. 36, no 140; M. Mączyńska, Schyłkowa faza kultury przeworskiej, (in:) A. Kokowski (ed.) Kultura przeworska, vol. 4, Lublin, 1999, p. 29, 30, fig. 14; I. Jakubczyk, Corpus der Römischen Funde in Europäischen Barbaricum – Polen, Band 3:Mittelpolen, Kraków – Warszawa 2018 – in print.
