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Posted on 04/12/2021 9:21:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The largest pottery production centre in Poland from the Roman period has been discovered by archaeologists near the village of Wrzępia within the Lesser Poland Voivodeship.
According to archaeologists, the production centre which contains 130 furnaces is the largest of its type in Poland, and one of the largest ever uncovered in Europe.
The site dates from around 1500 years ago, of which two furnaces have been excavated, and the rest have been traced by conducting a magnetometer study over an area of 12.3 acres.
Previous research shows that the furnaces operated at full steam between the turn of the 2nd / 3rd and the 5th century. At that time, the area was inhabited by Germanic tribes, probably Vandals.
The largest comparable Vandal site from that period was previously found in Zofipol near Krakow, where 57 furnaces were excavated.
"Our research shows that only storage vessels with characteristic thickened spouts were produced here. These were large vessels up to 50 cm in diameter and about 70 cm high" - explains archaeologist Jan Bulas.
The research team plans to return next year to determine the spatial spread of the pottery produced, and to understand whether manufacturing was conducted over a period of several centuries or intensively for a short period.
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LOL! This story reminds me of when dark forces were trying to recruit me to drive bus loads of US military wives from Germany to Poland to buy Polish pottery. Fortunately my dog had a hangnail and needed attention, but I remember explaining to them (the wives) that the hookers...I mean, women standing out by the road on the Polish-German border were out there because their husbands were off to war and it was tradition that they stand out there waiting for them to return! Fun times!
I’m guessing that was AFTER the Berlin Wall fell and East Germany opened its borders. During the 70’s and 80’s there was a Czech pottery center that American dependent wives could get visa’s to visit.
I love Polish pottery - have a beautiful tea set I got from a dealer in PA. It’s fairly easy to find these days with the interwebs.
Hey, it keeps the handle from breaking.
And all this time we’d been told that the Vandals took the handle.
Czech was crystal. Yeah...some of the suckers I worked with actually got roped into making that trip! When I used to go to Czech, the last thing I was interested in was pottery!
Is there any evidence that this pottery was being traded across the Limes into the Roman Europe, or is it only found in barbarian territories? Certainly, we have considerable evidence of trade across Hadrian’s Wall in Britain, but I know nothing of similar trade in what is today Germany and Poland.
You're onto something there, Roman goods had a deep penetration in areas not ruled by Rome. This stuff was of a style and date that corresponds to the Vandals, a Germanic tribe that eventually spilled over the border and sacked Rome, then went on to northern Africa, founding (not surprisingly) the Kingdom of the Vandals.
LOL I knew somebody would do that I didn’t want to take the heat if I did it.
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