Migration Period
between Odra and Vistula

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Zamość

Zamość, Lublin Voivodeship, site of discovery in 1839 inside the Fortress of a hoard of silver coins and gilded silver dress accessories (fig. 1.). Entered the Hermitage Museum where it remains to this day. Sixteen silver coins (siliquae) of Constantius II (337-361), mostly minted between 351 and 355, give an impression of being an original group. Dress accessories: 1. gilded silver brooch A. VI 2 with an upper chord, bow decorated by chip carving (→Kerbschnitt Style ), L. 10.5 cm; 2-3. Two silver brooches with a half-round head and trapezoid foot, gold-plated, decorated with granulation and embossing (Pressblech), L. 11.5 cm; 4. gilded silver buckle, type H 45, or Strzegocice-Tiszaladány-Kercz of R. Madyda-Legutko; 5. heavy silver buckle with an embossed ornament in →Sösdala-Untersiebenbrunn Style, type H 46; 5. gilded silver double →Tongue-shaped strap-end decorated with a nielloed design of rosettes and rectangles within circles, type 13 of R. Madyda-Legutko.

This group of →Migration Period  objects belongs in the horizon of hoards Kačin-Zamość-Coşoveni-Siedlików and in the advanced phase D2 (380/400-440/450), which corresponds to the second quarter of the 5th century.

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Literature: T. Sulimirski, Znalezisko z Zamościa i jego tło; Archeologia Polski 11, 1965, p. 118-173; V. V. Kropotkin, Skarb srebrnych monet i przedmiotów z IV w. n.e. z Zamościa, Wiadomości Numizmatyczne 14, 1970, p. 15-17; A. Kunisz, Znaleziska monet rzymskich z Małopolski, Biblioteka Archeologiczna 30, Wrocław 1985, p. 134-135; R. Madyda-Legutko, Die Gürtelschnallen der Römischen Kaiserzeit und der frühen Völkerwanderungszeit im mitteleuropäischen Barbaricum; BAR International Series 360; Oxford 1986, p. 70; A. Kokowski, Schätze der Ostgoten, Stuttgart 1995, no cat. 4859-4862; A. Bursche, Later Roman – barbarian contacts in Central Europe: numismatic evidence, Studien zu Fundmünzen der Antike (SFMA) 11, Berlin 1996, p. 160-161; J. Tejral, Neue Aspekte der frühvölkerwanderungszeitlichen Chronologie im Mitteldonauraum [in:] J. Tejral, H. Friesinger, M. Kazanski (eds.), Neue Beiträge zur Erforschung der Spätantike im mittleren Donauraum, Spisy Arheologického Ústavu AV ČR Brno 8, Brno 1997, p. 335-336; W. Menghin (ed.), Merowingerzeit. Europa ohne Grenzen, Berlin 2007, no. cat. 07.1-5; R. Madyda-Legutko, Studia nad zróżnicowaniem metalowych części pasów w kulturze przeworskiej. Okucia końca pasa, Kraków 2011, p. 97-100.

  • Fig. 1. Silver gold plated dress fittings from the hoard found in Zamość, 1st half of the 5th c. (after Leiber ed. 1995). full resolution

    Fig. 1. Silver gold plated dress fittings from the hoard found in Zamość, 1st half of the 5th c. (after Leiber ed. 1995).