On Friday 13th May 2005 a hoard was discovered in Dębicz, district of Środa Wielkopolska, where it had been buried in a then unpopulated area about the middle of the tenth century. As a result of archaeological investigations more than 200 silver artefacts were recovered from the soil - fragments of Islamic coins and silver ornaments, many of which were decorated with filigree and granulation. Also recovered were fragments of the pot in which the hoard had been hidden. This hoard was first discovered by accident in 1936, during felling of the forest. The artefacts recovered then were lost. The first discovery of the investigation team was the finding after nearly 70 years of the only one of the six original finders who was still alive, Józef Wojtczak, presently living in Słupsk. Without the more detailed information from him, the rediscovery of the hoard would not have been possible. The recent investigations allow an almost full reconstruction of the context and chronology of the find, for this time the discovery of the findspot was not an accidental occurrence, but the effect of the execution of a planned investigation, financed by the Ministry of Science and Information Technology, having the aim of the verification of former discoveries of Early Medieval hoards from the Great Poland region. The discovery was made by the archaeologist Mirosław Andrałojć and the electronics engineer Piotr Szyngiera, further fieldwork was directed by Małgorzata Andrałojć, and conducted by archaeologists Patrycja Silska and Marcin Szydłowski and archaeology students - Tomasz Bartoszewski, Kamil Maciejewski and Marcin Maciejewski. The grant is administered by the Archaeology Museum in Poznan, and its director is Dr. Andrzej Prinke.