Siekierka z brązu ze starszej epoki brązu z Miejsca Piastowego, pow. krośnieński

The article concerns a bronze axe found accidentally at Miejsce Piastowe in 2018. The axe represents the flanged axe type and is dated to BrB. It can be linked with the settlement of the Ottomani-Füzesabony culture, which developed during the BrB1-BrC period in the northern foreland of the Carpathians.

In the spring of 2018, one of the inhabitants of Krosno reported to the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Rzeszów the discovery of a bronze axe in the area of Miejsce Piastowe, Krosno district, near the Winna Mountain (height 342, 6 m a.s.l.). The item was uncovered in poor condition: the central part of the axe and the butt were broken, only a part of the cutting edge was preserved, 4.5 cm long. Metallurgical studies were carried out for the axe, which indicated that it was cast from tin bronze. The axe represents the type of flanged axes. Such axes appeared in Europe in the Early Bronze Age (the end of BrA1), and with varying degrees of intensity they were used up to BrD. In the northern outskirts of the Low Beskids there were three similar tools, such as the item from Jasło, site 29, from Trzcinica, „Wały Królewskie”, Jasło district and from Trepcza, Sanok district, site 2. The shape of the cutting edge and its symmetrical thickening of the sides of the axe discovered in Miejsce Piastowe may suggest references to the items from Trepcza and Trzcinica. Its chronology can be referred to times corresponding to BrB. Its presence is related to the settlement of the Ottomani-Füzesabony culture.