The Goths and the Wielbark Culture

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The cemetery site for which the Wielbark Culture was named has been known for over a century. The scientific value of the site is, however, only now beginning to be realised. With a continuous sequence of use spanning five centuries, the site may hold clues that can shed new light on population continuity and the migrations of the Goths.

Over 100 years ago, near the village of Wielbark on the outskirts of the town of Malbork in northern Poland, remnants of a huge cemetery dating from the Roman period were discovered. Systematic archaeological excavations led by the Town Museum of Malbork began in 1927 and continued until 1936.

Despite the fragmentary state of knowledge, the number of finds recovered from the site, and their scientific value, was so significant that virtually every typological and historical study of pre-Roman and Roman-period material culture in this part of Europe was based on this assemblage.

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