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The hoard from Zbiersk, district of Kalisz

       Another Early Medieval hoard was discovered by the archaeologist Mirosław Andrałojć and the electronic engineer Piotr Szyngiera. Archaeological investigation was conducted from 22nd April 2006. In the fieldwork also participated: Małgorzata Andrałojć, Patrycja Silska and Tomasz Bartoszewski, Adam Budynek and Marcin Szymański. As a result of these investigation 119 silver artefacts of the deposit were recovered. The find contained coins and its fragments (Islamic, English, German, Bohemian and Hungarian), fragments of ornaments, pieces of molten silver and some parts of a vessel, in which the hoard was deposited. Moreover the archaeological context of hiding of this hoard and unknown details of its earlier discovering were recognized.
       The history of discovering of the hoard from Zbiersk dates back to 1937. That year, during digging up pine stumps Antoni Szczepaniak came across a vessel, which broke down later. As it was estimated afterwrds, the deposit would contain about 120 elements. Sixty five of them were delivered to Państwowe Muzeum Archeologiczne in Warsaw in 1938. Present excavation gave almost 120 new objects - the hoard had to be significantly bigger. The hoard was probably hidden at the end of the third quarter of the 11th century.
       The discovery from Zbiersk is next research success of a team executing the grant of Ministry of Education and Science entitled " The archaeological context of Early Medieval silver hoards from Greater Poland" (1 H01H 062 27). The project is administrated by Poznań Archaeological Museum, and it is directed by Andrzej Prinke Ph.D.

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