Author: natgryczewska

The 2019 season of excavation became an opportunity to make professional photographic documentation of the sites we are interested in. Three of our research team members went on a journey through Sąspowska Valley to capture its beauty. The group was led by the project manager,  Małgorzata Kot, and was accompanied by a new member of…

During excavations in Małe Rockshelter, a group of students led by Michał Leloch, roamed the area around Sąspów Valley in search for new sites. Extensive surveys brought promising results. W have identified several new potential sites related to the processing of flint. We hope that analyzes of collected artefacts will grant us knowledge about their…

Małe Rockshelter is a part of Bramka Rockshelter, which we excavated in 2017. It is a niche 3,5 metres deep with irregular shape. During professor’s Waldemar Chmielewski excavations in Bramka Rockshelt er Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age artefacts where found. They were unfortunately in one, mixed holocene layer. Although our works in 2017 made possible…

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…