Decorated jug

A pottery vessel with a black, burnished surface is decorated with two cordons on the neck and a rounded meander ornament engraved on the body. It is a jug in the form found in the Wielbark culture. The handle of the jug is elbow-shaped and has a little canal running inside. The purpose of this type of vessel has not yet been explained. The vessel comes from an urned cremation, accidentally discovered in 1938 in the Miechęcin sandpits. Together with the jug, the grave also contained three bronze fibulae, representing two different design variants, a gold pear-shaped pendant with a profiled lower part and a fragment of an antler comb. Earlier, in 1937, three other graves were accidentally discovered on the same sandpit. The archaeologist Walter Boege undertaken the excavations at the cemetery. The relics were taken to the museum in Kołobrzeg at that time.

Bartłomiej Rogalski