The
study is dedicated to the analysis of hoard consisting of
silver ornaments, western European Byzantine and Arab coins;
of these last it was only possible to give general information,
it is hoped that in the future a publication may be devoted
to them. The work was undertaken with the support of the
Committee for Scientific Investigation (2HO1H 063 23), conducted
by the Poznań Archaeological Museum and directed by under
Professor dr. hab. Lech
Krzyżaniak.
In
1996 a project was initiated to create an inventory of hoards
discovered in Poland, the project was named Corpus Thesaurorum
Poloniae (CTP)
1.
During on site verification of the project principles, in
August 2001, it was attempted to find the
place,
where in 10.11.1932 hoard accidentally uncovered by ploughing
subsequently taken from the soil by Prof. Zygmunt Zakrzewski.
No study was written about the find, and now it must be
acknowledged as lost
2
.
The
hoard was discovered northeast of the village of Kąpiel,
in the upper parts of steep sides of a valley falling towards
the east, the starting point of a little tributary stream
of the River Wrześnica (
fig. 1).
A straightforward strata-graphic profile was registered
- a humus layer of 0.30 m. depth, lying over undisturbed
soil, practically all of the historic material came the
ploughed layer or the uncultivated soil layer, except for
several very small fragments, originating from feature no.
1, explained as a cavity, in which the whole deposit had
once been hidden. Held in the cavity were fragments of the
lower part of the bowl of a small vessel, ornamented in
the upper parts by horizontal grooves (
fig.
3,
Plate II/VII:A). Parts
of the hoard certainly had other protection than just the
vessel, made from organic material, indicated by the impression
of fabric retained on an fragment of ornament (
fig.
6). Also nearby a remarkably deep cavity was registered
containing no material that might date the feature, used
repeatedly as a hearth with a stone surround (
fig.
2).
The
fundamental question for sources so obtained, depending
on repeated deposits additionally mixed in degrees by ploughing,
is the question of their chronological value; the problem
being to what extent may they be treated as a group. Examination
yielded 2774 silver historic objects, among which only 2
were not connected with the hoard (
fig.
4:1-2). The remaining elements - silver coins and their
fragments and also broken pieces of silver jewellery - on
the basis of their dispersal, restricted to a few metres
around the centre, at which was found the cavity destroyed
by the plough and pottery pieces, dependent elements of
the deposit, they ought to be regarded as a homogeneous
collection.
The
catalogue contains information on all metal historic artefacts
found during work at digs in 2001. For all elements of the
deposit, in so far as is possible, the same descriptive
criteria are applied, noting firstly: (A) - typological
characteristics of the artefact, next (B) - destructive
activity, including the number and type of stages that resulted
in final state of the historic hoard artefact as noted.
If it is not possible to distinguish the typological traits
of an artefact beyond the indication that it is a piece
of coin or ornament, the Catalogue description is limited
to point B.
The
scheme used in the study in the coins section (
fig.
5) permits precise notation of the shape and size of
the described piece of coin, with the markings on the rim,
and listing the number and place of the division made and
also allows an evaluation of effort applied to their accomplishment.
It enables also the exact location of further legible distortion
of the piece of coin and its interpretation within the context
of the divisions made - the succession of time and connection
within the divisions (i.e. the cut on the edge left after
the division), or the description of the intended or accidental
nature of the destructive effect.
Typological
and chronological analysis of the group. The currently
discovered part of the Kąpiel hoard is composed of 2772
silver artefacts consisting
of coins -
21+2460 (89.5%) and also ornaments and unfinished items
- 2+288 (10.5%). The total weight is 833.17 g., of this
coins 674.22 g (80.9%), items other than coins 158.95 g
(19.1%).
Arab
3
coins form the most numerous part of the find - 1+1510 that
is 54.5% of the items and 56.8% weight. Identified in varying
degrees were 1+549 dirhams (36.4%), of the remainder only
fragments of conventional inscriptions were identified or
they were extremely worn. I entire Arab coin remained -
a Samanid dirham of Nah ibn Mansur from the mint of Andaraba,
dated the year 978/979 - the most recent orientally dated
piece of the hoard. The oldest, from the VII century are
2 Sassanid or Arabo-Sassanid coins. Among the later coins,
from the X century, at least 77 were struck in the first
half, a further 30 at about the mid X century, and the latest
group consists of coins from the second half of the X century.
(44). separated into 52 copies of Arab coins and 2 coins
of the Kamski Bulgars.
Among
the European coins the issues from the Bavarian area dominate
(Plate
I/IX:296-299,
I/X,
I/XI,
I/XII,
I/XIII,
I/XIV,
I/XV,
I/XVI:484,
486-489, 491-492): 1+197, which constitutes 7.14 % of the
number of artefacts, making up 5.95 % of the weight of the
group, of which the Bavarian mints certainly struck - 66
in Regensburg and 30 in Nabburg, and in Swabia - 15 in Augsburg
and singly in Breisach, Strasburg and Zurich. The oldest
of those registered in the Bavarian collection were struck
by Princes Henry I (948-955) and Henry II (955-976) and
also Prince Ludolf (953-955), the later coins are of Prince
Otto (976-982), struck during his usurpation and are the
most numerous in the collection (31 items), and the latest
are of Prince Henry III (982-985) represented by 6 coins.
Among the Swabian issue from Augsburg the coins of Bishop
Udalryk (923-973) dominate, especially from the years 954/5-967
and of Bishop Henry I (973-977/8), few are the denarii struck
by the Bavarian princes - Prince Otto (976-982) and singly,
but as the only one remaining as an entire denarius (Plate
I/XIV:410) Prince Henry III (982-985).
The remaining coins originate from the mints of Western
Swabia: Prince Burchard (954-973) from Breisach, Prince
Otto I (973-982) from Zurich and Bishop Erkambold (965-991)
from Strasburg. Registered also were 5 fragments of coins
with
excellently imitated inscriptions,
copying denarii from the Bavarian Swabian area (Plate
I/XVI:488-498,
491-492). The number of coins from this area in this part
of the collection is very high, comparable in this regard
- taking account of Polish land and Polabia - only from
the find from Zalesie
4.
A
very high share, the fourth in the collection numerically
is taken by Danish half bracteate (5+118 - 4.44 % of the
find), though their total weight is not great - 12.45 g,
1.49 % of the weight of the hoard (Plate
I/I:12,
21-22, 25-28, 30-34, 36,
I/II,
I/III,
I/IV:112,
115, 129). The group is very compact chronologically, all
the exactly dated half bracteate are of 2 types and originate
from the second half of the X century. Among
109
examples possible to describe, 96 fragments represent various
types struck in Hedeby, copying the much earlier Carolingian
coins from Dorestad (B. Malmer CEIII/DIII). 13 coins represent
the older varieties of the cross type (Bå/K, KG 10a),
originating according to B. Malmer from Jelling or maybe
from Roskilde or Lund
5.
The analysed group of half bracteate is the greatest in
Poland and is one of the most numerous yet found in Europe.
Somewhat
fewer were the Saxon coins in the hoard (4+113), represented
by
two types - the Sachsenpfennige type
I (Plate
I/V:178-182,
I/VI,
I/VII,
I/VIII,
I/IX:272) and also the denarii
of Otto and Adelaide (Plate
I/IX:281-293).
Among the cross type I, 2+101 were registered,
4
varieties appeared, which Ch. Kilger tried lastly to ascribe
to several mints and successive Ludolfing rulers after 965
6.
As the oldest (Kil. KN 1, Dbg 1328) may be counted 1+17
coins, including an obol its fragment (Kil. KN1o, Dbg 1326
and 1970). Generally recognised as later
7,
the variety with the inscription ODDO (an OTTO variety was
not noted) inside a chapel, represented in Kąpiel by 0+11
coins (KN 2:1, Dbg 1328), dated about 975-985. Numerous
enough are denarii of succeeding types (KN3, Dbg 1325b),
dated 970-985 - 1 whole coin and 16 fragments were noted.
The latest is
of the hoard group (0+7)
cross type I (KN 4, Dbg 1329), which the above named researcher
ascribed to the times of Otto III - about 985-1000 and to
the mint in Halle-Giebichenstein. The second type of Saxon
coin, denarii with the names of Otto and Adelaide
8,
generally taken as being Otto III and his consort Adelaide
and in consequence dated after 991 the last dated being
earlier, being after 983/984
9.
In the hoard trove of Kąpiel appeared 2+ 12 denarii of Otto
and Adelaide, thus the majority (2+ 4) of these, which might
be precisely identified, belong to type II, with the name
OTTO on the arms of a cross, 0+1 to type III, 0+1 to type
IV and 0+3 to type III or IV.
Significant,
numbering 47 examples in the group of coins constituted
by the Czech issue (Plate
I/XVI:
493-498, 500-505,
I/XVII,
I/XVIII).
Represented are several types: Bavarian I-IV, sword I and
II, "Byzantine" and the hand-chapel type and also many of
their fragments, characteristic of the oldest Czech mint,
and struck by Bolesław II (967/72-999), and maybe equally
in several cases (Bavarian type I) by Bolesław I (935-967/72).
Among the oldest (Bavarian type I), are
9 coins from the current investigation at Kąpiel. The last
of them carrying a fragment of the name BIAGOTA, should
be ascribed, according to the latest research of W. Hahn,
to Bolesław II and his wife Emma (Blagota)
10.
In our collection a coin fragment appeared belonging to
the Bavarian type I, carrying a cross in the arms 2 and
1 an orb (Šm. 1), considered sometime as the beginning of
the Czech mint
11.
Among the Bavarian type II, dated from about 978
12
are 4
coins from Kąpiel, the next 6 carry
images characteristic of the sword type, from which the
four first, older (sword type I), struck at the beginning
of the 80's of the X century. The most numerous in the hoard
trove are coins of the Bavarian type III, carrying under
the roof of a chapel the inscription ONO or ONC - 10 items,
dated from about 980
13.
Denarii of the Bavarian III type are in any case markedly
more common than the later, besides the sword type II, coins
of the Czech type
14
noted among the coins - "Byzantine", Bavarian IV and hand-chapel,
for which the beginning of the issue is designated as around
985
15
or somewhat earlier
16.
Rhineland
coins from Franconia (Plate
I/IV:144-148,
151,
I/V:155, 157-158) and from
Lower Lotharingia (Plate
I/V:161-168,
172-173, 176-177) occurred in similar numbers, in several
examples. Among these last, besides Cologne denarii of Otto
I and Otto II or Otto III, were still noted copied Cologne
obols of Otto I, recalling type Dbg 330 and also struck
in Trier a denarius of Otto II. Amongst 16 Franconian coins
struck in the times of Otto I and Otto II, were identified
5 from the Mainz mint, 4 from Spira and 2 originating from
Worms and also 5 whose mint of origin is difficult to identify.
Byzantine
miliares (Plate
I/I:1-2, 4-5),
which contributed 6 fragments to the recovered hoard were
issued by successive emperors from Constantine VII Porphirogenus
(913-959) and Roman II (945-963), from the period of the
joint rule in the years 945-959, till John I Tzymiskes (969-976).
Italian
coins (Plate
I/IV:135, 138-139)
are represented at Kąpiel by 5-6 fragments, in the main
small and difficult to decipher and thus difficult to unambiguously
classify. They originate from the Otto issues, from the
mints of northern Italy (Pavia, maybe also Lucca or Milan).
Based
on retained fragments it may be stated that there were 4
English coins in the group (Plate
I/I:7-10)
types
first small cross and
first hand, of
which the 2 last were issued by Ethelred II (978-1016) from
the years 979-985. English coins from times before the Danegeld
(from 991), are very rare in Poland - at Kąpiel undoubtedly
one of the earliest dated of these has been found.
Other
German coins are modestly represented - from Upper Lotharingia
(Plate
I/IV:141-143), struck in
Metz, Frisian coins from Deventer, connected with Otto III
(983/4-1002), coins from the kingdom of the Burgundian Basils
(Plate
I/IV:134), struck by Conrad
the Peaceful (937-993).
Part
of the non-coin hoard analysed, is composed of ornaments,
apart from one remaining in fragments (268 pieces). Additionally
in this part of the find are 2 examples of cast silver and
18 pieces of bars. In all then 290 pieces, weighing 158.95
g., constituting 10.46% of all pieces of the hoard and 19.08%
of its weight. Typologically this part of the inventory
is very varied.
Among
the Kąpiel hoard are:
1) 20 ornamented fragments are certainly parts of clasps
of a necklace (Plate
II/I:1-6,
12-20) and a further 20 mainly small fragments, probably
also fragments of clasps (Plate
II/I:22-31, 33-34, 38-40),
2) 28 collar beads: oval (Plate
II/I:43-46,
48, 50-53), oval with bulging (Plate
II/I:54-59),
with knobs (so called horns - Plate
II/I:60-62),
oval polygonal (Plate
II/I:64-66),
granular ornamented and open work type. Rarer among the
examples of oval beads from Kąpiel is the volute ornament
decoration, made from twisted filigree or decorated with
straight wire in the form of non centrally placed double
circles (Plate
II/I:51-52). Entirely
exceptional is a Scandinavian type of bead, volute ornamented
with a broad, flat band of press filigree
(Plate
II/I:41),
3) fragments from arm rings, bracelets or necklaces (Plate
II/I:69-77, 79). One of the arm
rings (Plate
II/I:69) with extended
ribs and fluting, with centrally raised ribs finds an analogy
between Danish
17
and Gotland
18.
hoard. Hoards from Poland among the hoard, which are pieces
of the mentioned type of ornament are dated as being from
the beginning of the XI century
17,
and thus a fragment from Kąpiel would be the earliest evidence
of their diffusion from the northern lands of Poland. Other
pieces come from an open arm ring of an almost peaked cross
section, with a central strip separating two bands of rhomboid
network ornamentation (Plate
II/I:70).
Arm rings of this type are noted mainly in the hoards of
Gotland
18,
and the fragment coming from Kąpiel is of that type, Ab
2, dated 950-1050. It appeared in Polish hoards dating in
principle from the year 1000, and the Kąpiel hoard is the
earliest noted deposit, in which it is noted,
4) 15 necklace fragments - their ends are formed of variously
decorated flat pieces (Plate
II/II:80-86,
88, 90-94),
5) 24 pieces of wire, constituting 10.33% of the non-coin
weight of the hoard trove. (Plate
II/II:96-98,
117-136),
6) small bars - 18 fragments (Plate
II/II:99-108,
II/III:109-116) weighing 31.79%
of the non-coin hoard. Works from most frequently four cornered
section bar, after forming (spiral twisted) and sometimes
ornamented ends act as arm rings
19,
7) 17 fragments of rectangular amulet containers so called "kaptorga" (Plate
II/III:137-142,
II/IV:143-149, 151-153). it is
noted that there are among others two kinds of plastic ornament.
One of these is in the form of horses' heads (Plate
II/III:137-138),
the second is oval knobs laid in one or two rows (Plate
II/III: 139-140),
8) fragments of brooches and pendants (Plate
II/IV:154-176),
including ring pendant (Plate
II/IV:175),
having very many analogies in the hoards of Denmark and
Gotland. Other type is round pendant, ornamented with a
motif of a large scrolled pellet, with a volute shape made
of 2 double, twisted wires attached to each other (Plate
II/IV:154). In Scandinavian materials
pendants are known ornamented with 2,4 and 5 volute scrolls
20,
this type of ornamented object is equally noted in Polish
hoards
21.
The next type is the
crossed pendant,
represented by fragments of 4 examples, ornamented with
a granulation technique, belonging to the later typological
varieties. Three of these (Plate
II/IV:155-157)
link directly to specimens of type C, dated in the Jutland
region in the 2 half of the X century, thus in Gotland at
the turn of the X century to mid XI century
22.
The fourth fragment (Plate
II/IV:158)
shows a somewhat later ornamental trait, which is very geometric,
but small granulation is applied, approaching the latest
varieties of crossed pendant of Gotland provenance
23.
Fragments of bracteate pendant are also differentiated (Plate
II/IV:159-163). An element of
such an ornament is e.g. fragment (Plate
II/IV:160)
metal leaf with soldered wire formed into
thick pseudo granules (Perlstäben). Further detail of the
ornamentation, which may be recognised as a part of a bracteate
pendant, is a plait of filigree strip in the shape of a
flat braid (Plate
II/IV:161),
however one may not determine whether the element originates
from a round/cirular brooch or a necklace
24.
The next two bits (Plate
II/IV:
162-163) of silver leaf decorated with a plaited ornament
entwined with a twisted filigree linking its appearance
to the style of Mammen and belongs to the type produced
from the X century in Gotland
25.
Round/circular brooches are well represented (type Sp.1
according to M. Stenberger) - Plate
II/IV:168-174).
On the face of this type of brooches are stylised motifs
filled with filigree and granulation 2-3-4 animal figures
in the form of plaited strips, linked to the style of Jellinge
26.
Four pieces (Plate
II/IV:168-171)
from Kąpiel belong certainly to variety A, dated 950-970
and first produced in Denmark, later in continental Sweden.
Other specimens (Plate
II/IV:172)
probably originated a little later, dated 970-1000 variety
B, typified by the application of thicker granulation
27.
Certainly of Scandinavian provenance is a broken piece of
a silver four-cornered plate, decorated with engraved ornamentation,
woven belts surrounding depressions, into which small circles
of gold leaf are punched with an inlaying punch (Plate
II/IV:167);
a technique associated with the Jellinge style. Of similar
origin is another - the recovered half separated detail
- the recovered half being of cast spherical thickening
(Plate
II/IV: 176) - this fragment
may have come from a ring brooch of type Rs2 according to
M. Stenberger,
9) 49 fragments of ear-rings - identified as the following
types: with raspberry beads (Plate
II/IV:178),
with empty beads, so called bubbles, e.g. a fragment from
seldom seen ear-rings, made of two oval, empty beads from
flat strip, tightly backed with twisted filigree (Plate
II/IV:179,
II/V:180-181),
semi circular with pendants on chains (Plate
II/V:183-185),
of variously shaped pendants (Plate
II/V:187,
190-195,198-199): so called goose feet, in oval, trapezoid
or pear form, decorated with a pseudo filigree technique,
and also five cornered plain metal sheet and little bubbles,
with cylindrical beads (Plate
II/V:210,212),
with openwork beads (Plate
II/V:218-222),
Świątki type (Plate
II/V:201-208),
additional beads (Plate
II/V:209,213-217) and curved (Plate
II/V:223-224,
II/VI:225) from
unidentified types of ear-rings,
10) 29 pieces of ornamental elements, which may not be ascribed
to defined types of article (Plate
II/VI:227-255),
11) 33 unidentified fragments, undecorated articles, described
as metal sheet of varying shapes (Plate
II/VI:264,
II/VII:265-288),
12) so called cast silver (Plate
II/VII:289-290),
represented by two examples - very small fragments weighing
less than 0.5 g - resembling drops of silver formed while
casting some silver object, rather than deliberately made
objects.
Destruction
analysis. The recovered piece of the Kąpiel hoard is
composed of
items divided to a very marked
degree. No ornament remains in its original form (2 collar
beads have not exactly been divided but have been severely
crushed), there remain however not counting the oriental
parts
28,
3 undamaged and 17 entire, yet variously damaged coins.
The
destructive activity is reflected in the weights of the
pieces - in a very fragment group the average weight of
all of its components is 0.30 g. The largest fragments (910
items), weigh between 0.11-0.20 g, and up to 70.17% of the
elements weigh up to 0.30 g. Many of the smallest fragments
equally of coins as of ornaments are so tiny that it is
difficult to do anything with them even in laboratory conditions
(see Plate
I/XIX). Using them
for exchange transactions would cause particularly great
loss, discernible in the archaeological material.
The
most divided coins are Czech coins of the so-called Bavarian
type I (only
fragments - 3.75 parts of
1 example), of the Bavarian - Swabian issues of the times
of Henry II (955-976) and older (3.2 parts, equally detached
fragments). Among successive in this regard Sachsenpfennige
type I (average 3.0, two whole - 1.9%), the most divided
are those last, recognised as being the latest
29
(KN4 - 3,3 parts). On average 2.9 times divided are the
Bavarian and Swabian issues of Prince Otto (976-982). Two,
a little higher, parts mark succeeding Czech denarii (Šm.
12 - 2.3), Danish half bracteate from Hedeby (2.2, three
undivided examples - 3.2%), Lower Lotharingian coins (2.1,
one whole - 5.9%) and Bavarian Swabian denarii of Prince
Henry III (982-985) - 2 parts, 1 entire coin remains. On
average less than 2 parts are noted among Franconian coins
(1.9, but here 3 entire - 17.6%), later Scandinavian half
bracteate (1.5 parts, two entire - 15.4%), Saxon denarii
of Otto and Adelaide (1.4 parts, 2 whole - 14.3%) and the
remaining types of Czech coins (sword type, Šm. 8 - 1.2,
type hand-chapel, Šm. 30 - 0.5; among Czech coins of the
later types there were also 6 whole coins -12.8%). The question
remains for further study, does analytical observation of
a statistical nature, concerning the fragmentation of the
coins in the group have any chronological value.
Decidedly
the greatest percentage of coins bearing cuts are found
among the Saxon issues (62.4%), of which more of them are
the denarii of Otto and Adelaide (78.9%) than of the Sachsenpennige
type I (60.2%). Markedly less of the Lower Lotharingian
coins are cut (47%), the Czech follows (45%), then the Bavarian
(39.4%) and the Franconian (37.5%). The least, for 17.9%
were the cut Scandinavian half bracteate, which beside the
Bavarian and Saxon coins had the greatest number of bent
edges and rims and bent out edges.
The
coins are bent to varying degrees; one may indicate numerous
incidents where distortion is not the result of division.
The group of coin fragments is also signified as they have
bent parts, and sometimes the bend follows a cut to the
edge or rim and the larger group, in which after a cut the
edge is bent of twisted at various angles. For example,
up to 39 of 47 Czech coins are to varying degrees and in
differing ways bent, most often as a result of division,
however in the case of 17 of them the bend cannot be linked
with division - this concerns among others whole coins.
The bending of parts of the metal sheet by the edge of 45
or 90o, previous cuts and bends at the edges. Other examples
are provided by the Scandinavian half bracteate, among which
5 undivided remain, but 3 of these have been bent several
times. The bending of these coins has occurred often in
the group, and carried out in several repeated ways. On
three whole and several coin fragments bent with the rim
bent into the centre of the coin "in the envelope" (Plate
I/II:47, 52, 67), on several others
there are several parallel bends as in an accordion (Plate
I/IV:129), further bent in half
(Plate
I/I:12,
I/II:50, 65,
I/III:
99), the next bent fragment of rim or edge, sometimes first
cut before bending.
A
much greater problem is posed by the observation of the
form of destruction, discernable on the ornaments, mainly
caused by the variety of their shapes and technique of manufacture.
Additionally the division of the spatial form may in larger
parts have an unintentional character, if it follows crushing
of the object (division along the break - e.g. collar beads
or ear-rings). For rectangular amulet containers (so called "kaptorga") and clasps of a necklace one may
seek a repetitiveness of the division along the axis of
these objects. In detail the means of division is determined
by the form, in the case of an item made from rods, wire
or thicker metal strip (necklaces, arm rings,
bracelets, ear-rings in pieces and unfinished products). Also
the degree of complexity of the construction affects the
number and type of divisions (ear-rings, rectangular amulet containers). It
already shows from the above comments that the number of
divisions and their average, is not in the group comparable
for various types of ornaments, regarding ornaments of different
types; one may however attempt to compare them in this regard
with ornaments of different deposits or finds. The cuts
on non-coin parts of the hoard are almost exclusive to and
many times noted among substantial items made from rod,
wire or metal strip. Rods were cut mostly, being pieces
of bars or maybe because sometimes ornaments were made from
them and the number of cuts at times exceeded 20 and the
appearance of them on all the pieces, exceeds the count
from other products, maybe excepting some fragments of necklaces.
Numerous cuts appear also on wire, arm rings, bracelets
and in lesser numbers on collar buckles. However they are
entirely sporadic among delicate ornaments decorated with
filigree
and granulation (ear-rings, pendants
and brooches of Scandinavian origin) and undefined ornaments,
and they were not noted on beads and rectangular amulet containers so called "kaptorga".
These
forms of distortion, effected on silver objects in the end
deposited in the soil, as yet have not been convincingly
explained
30,
though various attempts have been made
31
or at least studied
32.
The spectrum of activity is wider here in any case, needing
to have regard also for such variation in material from
Kąpiel, and not connected with the division of coins, repeated
bending of their little fragments, the "compound" of whole
coins and their greater parts and at least some of the bent
rims and edges
33.
These distractions were thus various - changing shapes and
weights of
articles (divisions), only
the shape (bending, compounding, buckling and crushing)
or leaving traces on the surfaces or edges, however without
change to weight and shape of the object (cuts). Some of
the articles, especially the divided dirhams and part of
the ornaments might have been deposited in the earth in
that already changed form
34,
however the majority subjected to the described treatment
in the Baltic region, and in any case Central and North-West
Europe, for they originate from there. At least some of
the mentioned occurrences (cutting, bending, subjecting
the remainder to frequent cutting and compounding), might
be understood in the category of the significance of the
silver. Should that be considered with reference to the
person (receiving, perhaps transferring the silver), place
(distinguishable stage points of the route of the silver's
journey), or also circumstance (customs in the area of social
behaviour and recognised systems of values and economic
activity)' currently this is not a means of solution. Consequently
- one may not exclude, that all the actions described already,
equally the dividing, served the same purpose; the division
thus might have been some form of branding silver products,
yet very intrusive on the material of the object and irreversible,
through that very discernable in archaeological material.
Other
forms of interference are piercing openings, changing maybe
temporarily the function of 11 coins from Kąpiel.
Chronology
of the hoard. At the Kąpiel deposit a range of elements
of varying origin and age are assembled. The structure -
the significant domination of Arab dirhams, constituting
over half of the mass of the hoard, the large number of
ornaments, very intensive fragmentation of all the components
of the deposit - typical of the older deposits of Wielkopolska,
from the 2 half of the X century. Among the coins from the
region of Bavaria - Swabia, the latest are the denarii of
Prince Henry III (982-985) - from the short three year extent
of his rule, originate 7 coins, among these only the Bavarian-Swabian
remain entire. There is a lack of common coins of Prince
Henry II from the second period of his rule (985-995). Relevant
to the dating of the Kąpiel hoard is the chronology of the
fairly numerous Czech denarii present in it,
represented
by as many as 8 types. Her are the oldest type of Bavarian
denarius I, ascribed to Prince Bolesław I (935-967/72) or
to Bolesław II (967/72-999) and coins of the latter ruler,
belonging to the Bavarian types II and III, which appeared
in hidden hoard after 983
35.
The latest in the group are coins of the Czech sword type
I, II(?), Bavarian IV, "Byzantine" and hand-chapel type,
from which the last type may be dated from 985. Among the
Saxon coins, equally the Sachsenpfennige, as the denarii with
the name of Otto and Adelaide are found further varieties
belonging to the latest in the group. The problem of dating
the Sachsenpfennige type I - KN 4 for the years 985-1000 is
debatable, though the presence of 7 of
their fragments at Kąpiel is not contradictory to the attempt.
Of greater significance for dating not only the Kąpiel deposit
is the last proposed chronology for dating denarii of Otto
and Adelaide by German researchers - after 983/4
36,
instead of the generally accepted till now - after 991.
Among the Otto issues, equally in Germany as in Italy, only
1 fragment, originating from Frisian coins struck in Deventer
may be with certainty linked with the royal governments
of Otto III (983/4-996), the remainder are ascribed to Otto
I and II. The European part of the deposit is chronologically
compact - practically all the coins originate from issues
struck after the mid X century. The latest Scandinavian
half bracteate from Kąpiel may be dated after 975/980, and
the English coins of Ethelred II after 979. A significant
number of the oriental coins also originate from the 2 half
of the X century, the latest of them being dated 978/9.
The latest Byzantine coins were struck by Emperor John Tzymiskes
(969-976).
All the above
presented data enables one to date the Kąpiel hoard as after
985, and most probably in the 2 half of the 80's of the
X century.
This
dating is not contradicted by the results of analysis of
the non-monetary part of the deposit. It should be emphasised
that this hoard deposit is currently the earliest dated
find in Wielkopolska, containing a very substantial number
of elements of Nordic origin and one of the oldest in Poland
37.
The hoard could not have been assembled from elements locally
available it must have been brought to Kąpiel as a compact
collection from an external, Scandinavian source. The youngest
forms among the ornaments at Kapiel are round brooches
of type Sp. 1, variety B, dated 970-1000
38.
Attempt
at reconstructing the size of the hoard of Kąpiel. On the
basis of the proportions discovered in 1932-1933 and in
2001 and the data on their structure, one may describe the
Kąpiel deposit as large, weighing above 3 kg, and composed
of about 80 whole coins and more than 10,000 coin fragments.
In the deposit there was certainly a necklace woven from
silver wire (unknown type). The hoard ought to contain about
1100 ornament fragments and unfinished items.
Attempt
at interpreting the character of the deposit. The study
concerns a
group, belonging to very numerous
early medieval deposits of silver distinguishing the Baltic
region, against the background of European relationships
of the IX-XI centuries. The proposed concept
39
of the nature of this find is based upon the principle of
monetary function of silver in many forms, though motives
beyond economics are indicated for the collection of metal
artefacts. Practically all of the
reflection
on early medieval silver objects, occurring singly and in
groups, currently in Polish literature on the subject, is
directed defining their economic-commercial role and the
possibility of interpreting these sources using economic
theories and concepts, especially connected with the various
monetary functions
40.
There are here
3 approaches - the large
number of deposits proportional to the large mass of silver
in circulation (R. Kiersnowski), the large number of hoards
oppositely proportional to the amount of silver on the market
(S. Tabaczyński) and lastly the lack of measurable association
between these amounts
41.
This last, supported by many observations on the proposition,
that the phenomenon of early medieval deposits may not be
explained solely within economic laws and concepts, the
more so as it is accompanied by leading to the interpretation
of the varied numbers of deposits on particular new terrains,
a plainly non economic category of concepts - custom
42.
This
custom of hiding (keeping) hoards
in the earth or its lack had to explain the few deposits
in Małopolska, being after all on a similar level of economic
development as the rest of Poland and noted beside Pomerania
for the greatest number of loose finds
43,
additional having the greatest indicator for silver discovered
in graves
44. In consequence,
one may this custom has no economic justification.
The
Kąpiel hoard, is part of the greatest wave of Wielkopolska
deposits, appearing generally after the mid X century, including
the 1 half of the XI century and disappearing by the end
of the 3 quarter of that century. The number of un-recovered
hoards left on the territory of the current Wielkopolska
province as late as the turn of the XVII and XVIII centuries
reached again the levels from the years 950-1050. Wielkopolska
is here only one of the regions of North, East and Central
Europe, in which this appearance is visible, in clear contrast
to the neighbouring German
territories,
where hoards from this period practically do not exist.
Only somewhat larger - taking account of the size of the
country - the number of Czech deposits, explain their effect
at times on the Baltic region, and in England the effect
of Scandinavia
45.
In Wielkopolska none other might have been direction of
the inspiration of this custom, where it appeared late,
one hundred and several dozen years later than Pomerania,
Russia and in Scandinavia. One must pose the question, whether
this appearance may be explained as an expression of cultural
adoption, or
does one se here the presence
of bearers of an alien tradition. Sometimes several times
greater numbers of deposits at the birth of the state, than
in later periods, through the lack of evidence of the then
more marked circulation of silver money in whatever form
46,
may not be explained only by the custom of concealing possessed
assets in the earth. The problem of the conscious leaving
of deposits, caused by ideological (religious) factors.
For it does seem that the gross deposits of the Baltic region
have such characteristic other than utilitarian traits,
and discoveries are so
numerous over an
extensive, yet sufficiently compact terrain (the eastern
part of Scandinavia, Russia, Polabia Poland), from a period
lasting over 200 and the strongly marked activity of people
of Scandinavian origin in Europe, may have association with
their beliefs. This already present
47
proposition certainly must be remembered, though equally
with certain modifications. Professionally arguments are
posed recalling the significance of such a custom, concerning
in any case not all Scandinavians, but as observed F. Kmietowicz
on the basis of the dispersal of finds - Swedes
48,
"the people of Yngwy" from the sagas of the Yngling
49.
On the homelands
of the Varangian warriors
the greatest number of hoards have been noted, with in this
regard those of Russia being in second place, an association
of at least a substantial number of the deposits with the
presence of Scandinavians, the inclusion of armed companies
in not negated
50.
The significant number of Scandinavian relics other than
deposits in Russia, is a reflection of the activity of the
northern craftsmen and merchants, and even warriors though
they create nothing. Deposits on Polish land, third numerically
after Scandinavia and Russia, after Pomerania, where they
appear in the IX century and where the presence of the Vikings
is confirmed at least equally early
51,
originate in principle not until the 2 half of the X and
the XI centuries.
The fundamental problem,
while establishing an economic mechanism for accumulating
precious metal, is a question equivalent to the inflow of
silver. For the lack on a greater scale of Western Slavonic
imports on the territory, to which it was to come, from
the lack of indicated sources of goods leaving no archaeological
traces
52.
Such an equivalent is not however necessary, if the effecting
mechanism was not the market and economic compulsion to
"accumulate hoard", but from other than utilitarian needs.
Apart from single finds of hoard on land now Polish (excepting
Pomerania), they appear in significant numbers not until
after the mid X century. Thus
there is
then, a great probability of the presence of Scandinavian
warriors in the military structure of the first Polish state.
Written sources indicate this indirectly, grave finds, Scandinavian
elements in settlement sites, establish lastly the possibility
of Scandinavian settlement
53.
As
J. Tambor considers, the time of the disappearance of the
analysed hoards concurs with the end of the political and
commercial activity of the Normans, and the longest laid
deposits are there where they appeared earliest (Gotland,
Scania, North Russia and Pomerania)
54.
The count of Polish hoards is decidedly greater in the areas
lying definitely in the north - Pomerania, Wielkopolska,
northern Mazowia, through this it is not Pomerania but Wielkopolska
that gathers the greatest number of deposits in the 1 half
of the XI century. On lands very much to the east and the
south
there are also deposits, though
in lesser numbers. Hoards appear in still less, but significant
against the background of the rest of Europe, in the Czech
lands, from whence equally comes mention of the presence
of Vikings at the court of the Przemyślids, known to us
even by the name Vikings
55.
Attention is drawn to the rapid assimilation of the Scandinavian
merchants (Upplanders) in Wolin
56,
or the Varangian dynasty in Russia, and simultaneously by
the continuation by the descendants of Scandinavians of
certain traditions
57.
Maybe a trace of such a continuation by 2-3 settled generations
are discoveries of very closely situated deposits, which
are separated however by several to several dozen years
(e.g. Dzierznica I and II,
Gralewo I and
II, Kłecko I and II, Obra and Obra Nowa, Ołobok I and II)
58.
Traces of another custom, coming from this group confirmed
by Icelandic sagas, is the custom of "borrowing" grave furnishing
from the dead and giving them back later with compensation
59,
there are anomalies noted in the inventories of some hoards
- occurring singly or with some elements being younger by
a few or a few dozen years than the rest of the group (Obra
Nowa, Poznań VI, Zalesie - Wielkopolska province, Gębice,
Kotowice - Lower Silesia province, Rzewin - Mazowia province,
Drohiczyn - Podlaskie province, hoard from the collections
of Kórnik and others)
60.
The
character of the deposits may at least in part linked with
the destructive activity, to which their elements were subjected.
It may not be excluded that for the gatherers of silver
for purposes associated with beliefs, there would not be
a difference in principle between whole objects and their
fragments - not on the economic basis of the value of particular
pieces of silver but in accord with the principle, known
from research into religion
pars pro toto and the symbolic
substitution for whole items by their parts. Thus one may
explain the wholesale division and other destructive activity,
and even perhaps through insufficient silver and few incoming
amounts, it might in this way be possible to establish new
deposits necessary for doctrine and tradition.
The
picture of cultural and economic change after "taking" -
moving the layer of deposits into non economic spheres of
social activity, in the areas where they occur it seems
very much in accord with information from other sources,
including written transmissions
61
and other archaeological data. The origin of all deposits
is not attached to the explanation presented here, however
a few of their parts certainly had the character of pocket
treasure, singly reflecting, seemingly, the oncoming economic
processes - yet one must see them in the proper proportions
and evaluate the intensity of these appearances in similar
numbers as on territory beyond the Baltic region.
Conclusion.
The Kąpiel hoard is one of the oldest Polish deposits. This
hoard, as one of not many in Poland, has currently full
data concerning equally the place and means of discovery,
very significant and representative analysis of the inventoried
elements, and data of a cultural and environmental context.
Footnotes:
1M.
and M. Andrałojć 2002, p. 133-159.
2Kept
in the Poznań Archaeological Museum 32+4 coins inventoried
in 1974 as originating from Kąpiel, probably belong to another
deposit.
3Oriental
coins from the Kąpiel hoard are not a subject of this study
- they were classified by D. Malarczyk . Only basic dates
relevant to the chronology of the group are given here.
4M.
Dekówna, J. Reyman, S. Suchodolski 1974, p. 176; greater
numbers of these coins is characteristic of Czech hoards
or deposits such as those in the Kórnik collection, formed
probably in Czech territory.
5B.
Malmer 1966, p. 342, S. Suchodolski 1971, p. 159.
6Ch.
Kilger 2000, p. 173-174; a tendency to ascribe them after
H.Dannenberg to the Magdeburg mint , though e.g. J. Menadier
oldest version assigned mints in Merseburg; not excluding
also further mints, in which they might have been struck
e.g. Bardowick, Gittelde, or Giebichenstein - cf. S. Suchodolski
1971, p. 17-19.
7S. Suchodolski 1971, p. 18.
8Earlier
J. Menadier and A. Suhle ascribed them to Otto I and his
wife Adelaide - Suchodolski 1971, p. 19.
9G.
Hatz 1991, p. 16 n.
10W.
Hahn 1978/79.
11S. Suchodolski 1971, p. 43-44.
12S. Suchodolski 1998, p. 8.
13S. Suchodolski 1998, p. 11.
14S. Suchodolski 1974, p. 214.
15S. Suchodolski 1971, p. 49-51, 78-79.
16S. Suchodolski 1974, p. 215.
17J.
Żak 1963, no. cat. 71, 108, 220, fig.. 104:45, 1967, p.
233.
18M.
Stenberger 1958, p. 104 (arm rings of this type defined
as being incomparably the most common in Gotland hoards).
19M.
Stenberger 1947, fig.. 35:2-4, 36:3-10, 39:4, 6-9, 40:3-6.
20M.
Stenberger 1947, fig.. 151:1-2; fig. 193:4 ; fig. 213:3;
1958, fig. 40:1-7; R. Skovmand 1942, p. fig. 14 ; fig. 11;
Wł. Duczko 1985, p. 37, fig. 25, 26 and fig. 23, p. 36.
21M.
Dekówna, J. Reyman, S. Suchodolski 1974, p. 111, Plate VIII:1-2;
J. Żak 1963, p.140, fig. 99.
22J.
Żak 1967, p. 215.
23M.
Stenberger 1947, fig. 250:1 (Hejslunds, Ksp. Havdhem; 1958,
fig. 41:1-2).
24J.
Slaski, S. Tabaczyński 1959, fig. 14, p. 45.
25M.
Stenberger 1958, p. 56; H. Kóčka-Krenz 1983, p. 146.
26R.
Skovmand 1942, p. 70; M. Stenberger 1958, p. 33, 35; J.Żak
1967, p. 196; H. Kóčka-Krenz 1983, p. 135.
27J.
Żak 1967, p. 196.
28In
the oriental parts 1 undivided dirham remained.
29K.
Kilger 2000, p. 173-174.
30B.
Malmer 1985, p. 51.
31R.
Kiersnowski 1960, p. 447 n; S. Suchodolski 1971, p. 198;
S. Tabaczyński 1987, p. 226-227. Division interpreted as
an effect of economic factors - necessity of obtaining lesser
monetary units for application to the needs of local trade
- divisions reflected size of transactions borne, or primary
role was as weight in commercial transactions and the scale
needed to be filled with tiny fragments of silver. Cutting
was a test of silver purity in artefacts or marked successively
made transactions (B. Malmer 1985, p. 51).
32A.
Kmietowicz, W. Kubiak 1969, catalogue; M. Dekówna, J. Reyman,
S. Suchodolski 1974, catalogue of ornaments.
33Idea
of analysing bends arose on the basis of study of ornaments,
and not coins - known to us from autopsies, and not- publication
on Kuźnica Czarnkowa hoard, Wielkopolska province (Numismatic
Collection National Museum in Poznań), found on semi circular
ear-rings pendants, bent in repeatable and deliberate fashion.
34J.
Tambor 1991, p. 28-29
35S. Suchodolski 1998, p. 11.
36G.
Hatz 1991, p. 16 n.; V. Hatz 1991, p.28 n.
37Przytór
is dated with Scandinavian elements after 950 (should be
dated after 980, include 3 cross type half bractea - M.
KG 10a), Bogucino and Gralewo after 995 and 996, and Kąty
after 1000 - cf. J. Żak 1967, table p. 340-356; Gębice dated
after 985 - S. Suchodolski 1974, p. 214.
38J.
Żak 1967, p. 196.
39V.
Jammer 1952, p. 42 n., M. Stenberger 1958, p. 307-320, S. Tabaczyński
1959, p. 1-47, 1987, p. 177-207, R. Kiersnowski 1960, S. Suchodolski 1971, p. 189-204, 1995, p. 67-70, J. Gaul 1979,
p. 69 n., 1981, p. 48 n., 1983, p. 238 n., W. Łosiński 1988,
p. 138-150, 1995, p. 72-75; W. Dzieduszycki 1995, p. 63-80;
in these studies further literature.
40This
interpretation key, used like an ideas pendulum, was not
limited to monetary finds of different periods. Virtually
identical schemes, especially used proposed concepts, might
be observed in some studies of bronze hoards, older by 2
millennia than this group - W. Szafrański 1955.
41S. Suchodolski 1971, p. 190-193. Author considers subject cautiously:
"the find does not constitute a fully measurable indicator
of quantity and quality of the mass of precious metal or
the intensity of its circulation".
42S.
Suchodolski 1971, p. 194-195.
43S. Suchodolski 1982, p. 10.
44R.
Kiersnowski 1960, p. 30-31. In the poorest in this regard
Wielkopolska this indicator is ten times lower.
45S. Suchodolski 1971, p. 195.
46The
number of loose finds is low in Poland, apart from Pomerania,
which is in accord with the conviction that silver fragments
may reflect extent of circulation, and in each case reflect
it better than deposits.
47H.
Seger 1929, p. 156, H. A. Knorr 1937, p. 4.
48F.
Kmietowicz 1972, p. 66.
49M. Stenberger
1958, p. 309, S. Piekarczyk 1979, p. 108-109.
50F.
Kmietowicz 1972, p. 86, W. Łosiński 1988, p. 147, J. Tambor
1991, p. 25.
51L.
Leciejewicz 1993, p. 51-58, W. Łosiński 1988, p. 147-150,
there further literature.
52F.
Kmietowicz 1972, p. 68-71, W. Łosiński 1988, p. 149, there
further literature.
53M.
Kara 1991, p. 99-120, L. Leciejewicz 1993, p. 59-61, there
further literature. Discoveries in 2003 should also be remembered
(cf. footnote 2) bronze signet ring, richly ornamented in
Scandinavian style, on greatest early medieval fortified
settlement in Wielkopolska - in Grzybowo, gm. Września. Object
originates from ploughed layer, and found near place, where
before early medieval much divided hoard had been found
(cf. J. Slaski, S. Tabaczyński 1959, no. 37, p.23), dated
by us initially as of the 60's X century.
54J.
Tambor 1991, p. 40, there earlier literature.
55L.
Leciejewicz 1993, p. 60. Tunna and Gommon described as "proceres",
murdered a Czech saint - Princess Ludmiła; the title shows
that they were then of the court elite.
56J.
Żak 1967, p. 172. Based on the tale of Adam of Brema one
may infer that successively Saxon and Danish merchants stayed
there separately.
57L.
Leciejewicz 1993, p. 60. According to the well-based concept
of W. Semkowicza, the well-known family of Awdaniec was of
Nordic origin (from Norse auda, audr - property, treasure),
in which it seems the tradition of giving first names of
directly Norse etymology is continued.
58J.
Slaski, S. Tabaczyński 1959.
59M.
Adamus 1970, p. 38 n.; W. Dzieduszycki 1995, p. 32, here
payment for using grave gifts was a gold ring.
60S. Suchodolski 1974, p. 213, footnote. 8, before removing suggestions
of the possibility of mixing certain elements of some groups;
A. Felczak, D. Malarczyk, S. Małachowska 1997, p. 4 and
12.
61F.
Kmietowicz 1972, p. 81, points out, that Gotland, hoard
house of Scandinavia, and thus the region of the potentially
greatest economic contacts, is not named in any sources
until the XII century. Probably Poland, concentrating a
very large number of deposits, was a commercial counterpart,
as wrote Gall Anonim not long afterwards: "country (...)
removed (...) from roads of travellers and little known
to anyone, save those who for trade travel through Russia"
(p. 84).
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