A collar necklace, a three-piece necklace

The three-piece necklace is a unique ornament made of bronze. It consists of three narrow hoops decorated with an elaborate motif of the so-called braided triangles. Each of them is finished with small rings that used to be a clasp. The relic is part of an immense hoard of bronze ornaments and tools placed in a clay pot, which was found by accident in 1884 during the scattering of potato mounds. In 1944, most of the hoard was taken to the west of Germany and hidden from war destruction and looting. Its consolidation took place only in 2009 due to the Polish-German exchange of old archaeological collections. The Rzędziny deposit belongs to the most interesting archaeological finds. It represents a small group of Pomeranian hoards from the 4th Bronze Age (approx. 1100-900 BC), which do not include bronze ornaments of the "Lusatian" type, but products characteristic for the Nordic cultural circle, which covered vast areas of southern Scandinavia and northern and central Germany. The presented necklace, a unique find in Pomerania, is considered the so-called import from that zone, more precisely from central German areas.

Dorota Kozłowska