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Fig. 40. Stara Kourim. A large hall building. A - a plan; B - a profile of the wali construction; C - a graphic vision of the construction; D - a graphic reconstruction of the building; 1 - contours of the walls; 2 - posts and post-holes; 3 - pre-historic objects; 4 - older Slavonic objects; 5 - Stones. Alter M. Solle, 1966, p. 110.

of the main gate of the stronghold, along the internal embankment. East of the hall there was a pond, in the late Middle Ages called “the Lakę of LubuSa,” as it was recorded in 1549. There used to be a spring in it. It was artificially enlarged to the size of 40 x 70 metres and had solidified shore on which traced of fire places were found. The pond was separated from the rest of the stronghold with an embankment. Along the north-eastem shore there was a large rich burial ground (Śolle, 1966, p. 136-146).

There is aiso a doubtful find in Mikulćice in Moravia. Zdenek Klanica (1985) discovered remains of a wooden object built of vertically arranged pales on the hill called KlaSterisko upon the river Morava, 400 metres from

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