1 – three pendants made of copper alloy, with loops, threaded onto wire rings, decorated with cut triangular ornament and carved herringbone pattern;
2 – a brooch made of copper alloy, decorated with carved ornament and embossed circles;
3 – a solid iron buckle with a thickened front frame, a beak-shaped prong decorated at the base with gold bands, and a solid buckle plate fixed with three gilt-headed rivets;
4 – an iron knife;
5 – a biconical clay spindle whorl;
6 – a hand-built pottery bowl;
7 – a pierced bone amulet;
8 – a necklace of beads threaded onto a strap (traces preserved on two beads), consisting of 81 glass beads and two amber beads;
9 – a necklace of 40 glass beads.
The grave was discovered at the biritual cemetery investigated since 1984. There was an inhumation burial of a woman in a spacious burial pit. Above the chest bones the small vessel was placed, whereas an animal rib with traces of using as a tool was by the skull. Two necklaces were discovered by the neck. The brooch was on the left shoulder, the spindle whorl on the right shoulder, the iron buckle below the left hand and the iron knife near the femur. The bone amulet was found on the chest, whereas the beads were in four places of the skeleton (by the right knee and the shoulder, by the left elbow and the ribs). Fragments of the comb plates were found in the pit which disturbed the main burial pit.
The presence of richly decorated pendants in the grave, which are very common in Sambia, indicates contacts of the Hrubieszów Basin with the area of the West Balt cultures from the area between the Pasłęka and the Neman.
Chronology:
the third quarter of the 4th century AD
Museum collection:
the Zamość Museum
by D. Łysiak
