The aim of the excavation is to identify the building layout north of the main road in the area adjacent to the main gate of the oppidum. To date, archaeologists were able to identify workshops of bronze-smiths and enamellers. It is a sloping terrain, so the ancients constructed terraces on which they erected buildings. Buildings had several storeys, with entrances located at different levels.
“This year, we discover mainly traces of metallurgical operations, primarily slags, but also coins and fibulas, or pins. After two weeks of work we have also dug up close to 100 kg of fragments of ancient amphorae. This number is likely to increase significantly before the study ends” – said Dr. Bochnak. He added that the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus wrote that an amphora of wine cost as much as the slave who would carry it. On the whole site, since the studies resumed in the 1980s, archaeologists have discovered more than 30 tons of this type of vessels.
Story: Science & Scholarship in Poland | Photo: T. Bochnak
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