Abstract
Lake Lednica, Greater Poland, is one of Poland’s most important and longest-studied underwater archaeological sites. The residential centre established on an island was one of the central points in the state of the first Piasts. Previous research located two bridges to the island and discovered the largest collection of early medieval military objects in Central Europe in the lake. In the 2017 season, a third bridge was discovered on Lake Lednica leading to the small island called Ledniczka on which the layers of an early medieval settlement and clear remnants of a motte-type medieval structure are found. Three seasons of research on relics of the crossing suggest that it may have functioned in two periods: in the tenth century and at the turn of the fourteenth century. During the research, a number of military items, pottery, objects made of organic materials and fishing tools were found.
Highlights
Ostrów Lednicki, situated on Lake Lednica, along with an entire early-medieval settlement complex, is one of the most important archaeological sites in Poland
Since 1982, underwater archaeological sites of Lake Lednica have been continuously studied by a team from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, currently represented by the Centre for Underwater Archaeology of Nicolaus Copernicus University (Kola 2000, 12; Kola et al 2016, 107)
The bridge to Ledniczka is one of the most important archaeological discoveries made in the waters of Lake Lednica in the last dozen or so years
Summary
Previous research located two bridges to the island and discovered the largest collection of early medieval military objects in Central Europe in the lake. In the 2017 season, a third bridge was discovered on Lake Lednica leading to the small island called Ledniczka on which the layers of an early medieval settlement and clear remnants of a motte-type medieval structure are found. Bridge – Middle Ages – Lake Lednica – underwater archaeology. Lednické jezero ve Velkopolsku patří k nejdůležitějším a nejdéle studovaným lokalitám podvodní archeologie ve střední Evropě. Předchozí výzkum odhalil dva mosty spojující ostrov s pevninou a největší soubor militárií ze dna středoevropského jezera. Most – středověk – Lednické jezero – podvodní archeologie Na ostrůvku byly dokumentovány raně středověké situace a opev nění typu motte. most – středověk – Lednické jezero – podvodní archeologie
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