Month: March 2019

In the last days of march we once again visited Ojców. One of our main goals was to do magnetic survey in order to confirm structures that we have noticed on photographs from LiDAR  and later verified in the field during our last two visits in Złota Góra. These structures are probably ramparts. Magnetic survey…

At the end of the February, when the snow has disappeared, we once again set off to Jura. This time to Złota Góra in Ojców. We continued field verification of data obtained from Airborne Laser Scanning, so called LiDAR. We focused on the area of Złota Góra, one of the highest hills in Ojców National…

Fieldwork season has ended, but after only few weeks in Warsaw we set off again to Sąspowska Valley. Main point of our journey was the recognition of potential archaeological sites, but also exploring sites in Sąspowska Valley, that were investigated in XIXth century or in the first half of the XXth century. During the first…

Ciasna is a cave situated between two nameless gorges in Sąspowska Valley. Work that we have planned to do here required just a few days, so we’ve decided to do it in 2018. Excavations in Ciasna cave progressed quickly. Partly because we could drive our car near the cave and transport of bags with soil…

Tunel Wielki Cave is located in Koziarnia Gorge, in a group of rocks called Sadlane. We’ve planned to dig here for two months, since the profile that we’ve wanted to uncover was almost 4 metres deep. We started our excavations here in the middle of July, when bad weather and rain made digging in Sąspowska…

Excavations in 2018 we started from cave located at the mouth of Sąspowska Valley, Sąspowska Zachodnia Cave, called also pod Kościołem Zachodnia Cave (which literally means  under the church west cave . Cave is located in the village Sąspów. Similar to the last seasons in our work participated students from University of Warsaw, supervised by PhD Małgorzata…

Bramka is a small rockshelter in Sąspowska Valley, with thickness of layers not exceeding 2 metres. We’ve decided to dig here at the same time as Koziarnia Cave, which is only about 20 minutes walk away. Overall we’ve worked here just for a few days. We’ve started our work with digging through old mound, which…

We started our project fieldwork with Koziarnia Cave, situated in Koziarnia Gorge. We chosen as a base a nearby historic villa named “Koziarnia”, in which The Seismographic Observatory of the Institute of Geophysics PAN was until recently located. Koziarnia Cave is situated on a rather steep, forested slope, and its entrance is secured with a…