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- Title
VORGESCHICHTLICHE RINGWÄLLE DER NIEDERLAUSITZ IM FRÜHEN MITTELALTER UND DIE LAGE DER POLNISCHEN BURG SCICIANI.
- Authors
BIERMANN, FELIX
- Abstract
From 2015 to 2017, metal detector surveys took place on ten prehistoric fortifications in Lower Lusatia and the adjoining Elsterland, yielding diverse insights into the chronology, function and use of these sites. This paper focuses on the subsequent use of the fortifications during the early Middle Ages. The finds show that several ringforts were used again from the 10th to the 12th century, partly as open settlements, but also as fortifications. Some of these had central administrative and economic functions. In particular, the new finds support the hypothesis that the long-sought stronghold Sciciani, which the chronicler Thietmar of Merseburg mentions as the seat and fortification of the Polish ruler Bolesław Chrobry, is connected to one of these re-used fortifications: the Schlossberg of Burg im Spreewald.
- Subjects
LUSATIA (Germany); RINGFORTS; CHRONOLOGY; MIDDLE Ages; THIETMAR, von Merseburg, Bishop of Merseburg, 975-1018
- Publication
Quaestiones Medii Aevi Novae, 2020, Vol 25, p101
- ISSN
1427-4418
- Publication type
Article