Cup-shaped dish

The small two-eared cup-shaped dish comes from a grave furnishing discovered by accident in 1897 on Skórcza Góra (German: Finkenwalder Höhe) in Zdroje. In the second half of the 19th century in this town, which was incorporated into Szczecin only in 1939, tourism developed dynamically taking advantage of the landscape values of the borderland between the Bukowe Hills and the Oder Valley. One of the places designated for recreation was Skórcza Góra, located on the edge of the Bukowa Forest, where at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century a restaurant was extended and viewing terraces were created. During construction work, a grave from the younger Stone Age was found here, the furnishings of which were donated by the local authorities to the collection of the Society for History and Antiquities of Pomerania in Szczecin. Adolf Stubenrauch, the keeper of the collection at that time, who came to the site of the discovery, stated that the grave had been found during the construction of the foundations. At a depth of about a metre from the ground surface, he observed the remains of an oval cobblestone pavement, under which the donated artefacts were found. From the grave there also came a goblet decorated with cord impressions, fragments of the upper part of the goblet also with cord ornamentation, a five-sided stone axe with a hole for setting a handle placed closer to the edge, two small, four-sided flint axes with thick edges and a lump of amber without traces of processing. Such a set of objects is almost a "model" equipment of graves of the Corded Ware culture. Taking into account the co-occurrence of cups decorated with cord impressions with a two-mouthed undecorated vessel and the presence of an axe, which in terms of shape is one of the younger forms in the sherds of the rope pottery culture, the origin of the grave can be dated to the last centuries of the 3rd millennium BC.

Krzysztof Kowalski