Stanowisko nr 20 w Przemyślu w świetle badań wykopaliskowych. Cz. 1. Analiza typologiczno-chronologiczna źródeł ruchomych pozyskanych w trakcie badań w latach 2005–2007

Site No. 20 covers the area on the west side of the cathedral church, around the building of the former Cathedral School at the Cathedral Square. This site is an important research point in Przemyśl. The discussed area has an extensive stratigraphy. The elevated nature of the place is a remain of an earth rampart from the Early Middle Ages. Below the rampart intensive settlement was uncovered. This is evidenced by the considerable thickness of the settlement layer, the presence of immovable features and plenty of movable finds. The traces of features make it possible to distinguish two phases of open settlement at the examined site – the Roman phase and the Early Middle Ages phase. The article presents the results of a typological and chronological analysis of movable artefacts obtained in the course of excavations at site No. 20 in Przemyśl carried out in the years 2005–2007. The analysis of the site stratigraphy will be the subject of a separate article.

The aim of the paper is to present the results of a typological and chronological analysis of movable finds obtained during excavations at site No. 20 in Przemyśl in the years 2005–2007. The site covers the area located directly on the west side of the cathedral church, around the building of the former Cathedral School at the Cathedral Square. Due to the location of the site on the eastern side of the castle hill in the vicinity of the Romanesque rotunda of St. Nicholas, this site is an important research point with reference to Przemyśl. The remains of intensive open settlement were exposed at this site in the form of residential and utility features in two phases: 1. Roman influence (phase B2–C2) and 2. Early Middle Ages (between the second half of the 10th or the beginning of the 11th and the end of the 12th century). The immovable features together with the initial report were published after the completion of the research in 2006 and 2007. It was noted that after using the open settlement, an earth rampart was built here, in which six subsequent phases were distinguished. The Early Middle Ages ceramic material was the only type of artefacts that were discovered in the subsequent six phases of the earth rampart. On the basis of some characteristics – technology, ornamentation or rim shapes, an attempt was made to determine the chronology of piling up successive layers of the rampart. The material in all layers is similar and it can be dated to the 11th–13th century. Therefore, the rampart was probably created from the end of the 12th or 13th century. A large collection of Modern period pottery sherds was obtained from the mound of the youngest 6th phase of the rampart, which was established as the period from the end of the 16th to the 1st half of the 17th century.