A uncommon clay cinerary urn formed like a home found in 2023 was introduced to the general public final month for the primary time. The uncommon artifact is just the fourth home urn found in Poland since World Warfare II, and this one is exclusive in design. It’s a rectangular mannequin home on 9 legs with a spherical door on one of many lengthy sides. It dates to the Early Iron Age (780-640 B.C.).
The home urn was found in Bożepole Wielkie throughout a rescue excavation at a website slated for building of a brand new distribution middle. The excavation ran from March till the tip of the September, and several other archaeological groups had been employed by the Lidl firm to survey dozens of hectares of land. In Could, archaeologists got here throughout a cist grave product of fastidiously organized multi-colored stone slabs. Encased within it was the urn.
The urn was transferred to the Archaeological Museum in Gdańsk for specialised conservation and analysis. To get a extra correct understanding of its contents, researchers carried out a CT scan. The imaging confirmed that the urn had a number of cracks and fissures, and was solely holding its partitions, ground and roof collectively because of the soil that crammed it. The scans confirmed that there have been an amazing many osteological stays, a lot a couple of particular person would have left.
Analyses have up to now confirmed that the home urn incorporates a a number of burial. The stays of an grownup man, a toddler over ten years previous and at the very least two different folks, one among them a girl, have been recognized. In complete, nearly seven kilos of bones had been excavated from the urn.
Cremation funerals had been the norm in Jap Pomerania within the seventh century B.C. The our bodies of the deceased had been burned on a pyre and as soon as the burning was full, the entire bone fragments had been eliminated and positioned in an urn together with small objects, often bronze items, belonging to the deceased.
Archaeologists needed to reconstruct the urn from the bottom up, creating customized molded replicas of the ft to exchange the lacking ones. They had been lastly capable of reattach each aspect utilizing plaster and adhesives to make it attainable for the urn to go on public show.
