Ancient burial ground found in Poland

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Archaeologists discovered dozens of iron and bronze artefacts including a sword and decorative buckles in a nearly 2000 years old Germanic cemetery, archaeologist Krzysztof Socha from the Kostrzyn Fortress Museum told PAP. The cemetery is located in the Gorzów poviat.

Archaeologists do not reveal the exact location of the newly discovered cemetery to prevent its destruction by treasure hunters who search fields and forests with metal detectors. Socha emphasises that he was surprised by the large number of discovered metal objects. Archaeologists have also found numerous fragments of burned human bones.

"After preliminary research, which we carried out in November, I believe that we are dealing with a huge, perhaps even several-hectare cemetery from the first centuries of our era" - says Socha. Three complete graves were discovered during the excavations; the remains of the dead had been burned. In one case, they were originally in a ceramic urn, in the other two they were poured into pits dug in the ground.

 

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