Farmers find Bronze Age Necklace in Poland – History

During a demonstration by the Wardria Massurians in northern Poland, a farmer in the village of Batos discovered a bronze necklace of 2,500 years. The necklace is made of a single bronze rod with a circular cross-section. It opens at one end like a tok and is decorated over the entire length with a double groove pattern around the double groove pattern on the outside.

The necklace was discovered by the farmer’s son in January when he was improving the chances of cattle getting water holes on the ranch. It is divided into two pieces, but the rest is clean and together they form a complete necklace. The landowner then handed it over to a local branch of the provincial office to protect the monument of the elk.

Experts from the Institute of Archaeology at Toruń Nicholas Copernicus University have determined that the artifact can be traced back to the Hallstatt C period. In the area found, this period saw the dawn of a transition from a community group of Massurian in Lusat culture to a community of Kurgen in the West Baltic, either of whom could wear a necklace.

“For a long time, no one has found a necklace that goes back to this era of our region. We have several axes from searches and some buttons, but the walls that started from the Roman period,” Magdalena Kozicka, an archaeological expert in the Ełk branch of the Office of Archaeology and Natural Resources, told PAP.

Researchers at the institute will now analyze the metal content of the necklace. Once the metal science analysis is completed, the work will be transferred to a local museum near the search website for display.