Dariusz Rozmus

The City Museum ”Sztygarka”, Legionów Polskich 69, 41-300 Dąbrowa-Górnicza, Poland · archeology

Pb contents (13-53 mg kg⁻¹) and pathological changes in almost complete cow skeletons discovered in graves adjacent to Pb and Ag smelting furnaces active in the Silesian-Cracovian region, in the mid-12th century are reported in the article. In addition to Pb, elements such as Zn, Cd, Fe, Mn, Cd, and Ba characteristic of Zn-Pb-Ag ores in the region...

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The main premise of this work is highlighting how old the human race actually is. Its origins, as the Author believes, are constantly shifting deeper into history, reaching now millions of years’ distance. Our position in relation to animals makes us unique beings, if only because it is solely us who can meditate on this subject. One should agree t...

In August 2016 a field survey and a test pit excavation (sondage) were made at Stare Bukowno, Olkusz County, on a site found close to a small elevation known as “Świniogóra”. This name may derive from the word ‘svinets’, a now outdated term for lead (still retained eg, in the Russian language) and may be understood to describe a lead mine (the word...

The text discusses new findings of early-medieval lead weights. The weights presented in the article come from the area of the Dąbrowa Basin. They were produced in the period when the early-medieval region of silver and lead metallurgy (the 11 th /12 th-13 th c.) functioned here stretching along the current borderline between Lesser Poland and Uppe...

Since the 12th century in the Silesian-Cracovian area, lead, litharge, and silver have been produced by the pyrometallurgical processing of Pb-Ag-Zn ore. Slags and soils contaminated with heavy metals (Zn, Pb, Cd, Fe, Mn, As) were the subject of this research. Samples were collected during archaeological works in the area of early medieval metallur...

The pursuit of independence is deeply rooted in the soul of the inhabitants of Greenland. The difference in the approach to this problem amounts to the establishment of the time and the conditions on the basis of which Greenland is supposed to become independent. The island, which is the greatest island in the world, has huge deposits of minerals,...

Early medieval lead weights from Młoszowa (near Trzebinia), Lesser Poland Voivodeship, are further examples of finds of artefacts of this type from the lands of Poland, Bohemia, Slovakia, and Moravia. They appear in various archaeological contexts, and the function they served has been interpreted in many different ways. So far, however, they have...

The vast destruction of the heritage sites in Syria and Iraq caused by the activities of ISIS may not only be attributed to fanatical iconoclasm with a religious background. The ideologists of the jihad movements in the so-called Islamic State intend to introduce one, unified version of Islam. In their world, there is no place for democracy, secula...

In the course of a few thousands of years of their history, the ancient Egyptians developed a very complex concept of cosmic order represented by the notion of maat and personified by the goddess Maat. It involved many of the cardinal laws described by subse¬quent philosophers, such as the Truth, the Law and Justice. One may claim that the principl...

The following notice constitutes the first treatment of quern-stones found in the early medieval (second half of the 11th c. and the second half of the 12th c.) metallurgical settlement in Dąbrowa Górnicza-Łosień, associated with the extraction and smelting of lead and silver. A selection of the quern-stones was subjected to petrographical research...

During archaeological research of early medieval settlement in Dąbrowa Górnicza-Łosień, a hoard of silver coins and silver smelts was discovered, over 1000 items in total. There was also found a mining shaft and numerous furnaces in the settlement area, confirming its mining and metallurgical character. The settlement development was based on excav...

The purpose of the article is to compare the chemical content of the type-4 coins of Władysław II Wygnaniec (Wladislaw II the Exile) and the type-1, 2 and 3 coins of Bolesław IV Kędzierzawy (Boleslav IV the Curly) of the Głogów hoard and of the Dąbrowa Górnicza-Łosień hoard (“the metallurgist’s hoard”). A non-invasive method of X-ray fluorescence s...

Na obszarach wychodni dolomitów kruszconośnych, na obszarach pogranicza Śląska i Małopolski odkryto osady produkcyjne w których zajmowano się metalurgią srebra i ołowiu. Dwie z badanych ar-cheologiczne osad produkcyjnych, znajdujące się w Dąbrowie Górniczej-Łośniu i Sosnowcu-Zagórzu, można określić mianem wczesnośredniowiecznych hut. Stanowiska zwi...

Uwagi wstępne Większość historyków uważa, że zgodnie z interpretacją przekazów źródłowych osada Zagórze powstała w pierwszej połowie XIII wieku (Chlebowski, Krzywicki, 1895, s. 265; Kołodziejski 1994, s. 200). Opierają się oni na dokumencie z 1228 roku, kiedy to książę Kazimierz Opolski nadał Klemensowi Staremu, kasztelanowi Krakowa i Ryczyna, pala...

The purpose of this article is to draw attention to the beginnings of lead processing in the Early Middle Age, based on the latest archaeological information. Rezumat: Articolul doreşte să atragă atenţia asupra apariţiei prelucrării plumbului în evul mediu timpuriu în lumina celor mai recente informaţii arheologice. Cuvinte cheie: evul mediu timpur...