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• Ig 3- MiteUawwe. DolnoiląsIiK Stmodcship Glau beads from ihc p*vn | (mt Eh I - PM 484; 5-« - gnvs 529; 7 gn>ve 479; i - graya 290; 9 - pni 489 (M - type l;S-6- type U; 7-tIype III. 9 - type IV) (phoL Justyna Baron)

accompanied single burials of people of unidentified scx, including an adult al the jge of Aduhus (grave 304). an adult (grave 484) and at the age of Iwenh/Adultus

|j»489). They were also found in a double grave - of a man at the age of Adul-■d a child at the age of Infans 1 (grave 318). The necklace discovered in that ecomuined 7 amber beads (an attribute for a man?).

Beads of type II (Fig. 3: 5-6) were discovered in 4 graves (318. 381,489, ;4i, 58(59?) items in total. They are smaller than type I, morę delicate and refer i th Iheir shapc to rings. Their surfaces are smooth, dark-blue or even navy-blue. hę surfaces of a few beads are also damaged and some bear traces of secondaiy -ummg. The undecorated specimens dominate (43 items). a few. however. have wy grooves left after the decoration which was there before (15-16 iiems). Othougb the beads of that type seem to be similar to each other. almost each >f them is madę differently, especially referring to their sizes. They are 0.25-50 cm in diameter. 0.10-0.20 cm high, and the holes diameters are from 0.10 9 0.30 cm. The discussed type of the beads occurred in the graves mentioned ibove, i.e. the double grave of a man and a child (grave 318 with type I beads) and •i person at the age of Iuvenis/Adultus (grave 489 with type I beads). Apart from dnt, they accompanied an adult person (grave 381, a man?) together with one imber bead, and they occurred in grave 529, however, we do not have the results ' anthropological analyses of that grave yet.

Beads of type III (Fig. 3: 7-8) occurred in the number of 39 exemplars and .Te | part of the grave goods found in 4 graves (290, 381, 479. 529). It seems palbie, that the beads from grave 529 belong to some other type (type II?) or vanation (darkcr. with light-brown colour). The beads are very smali, ring-shaped and yellow (white at the moment of their discovery). There are no decorated spc-cimens among them. They are 0.30-0.40 cm in diameter. 0.10-0.25 cm high ud the holes’ diameters are 0.15-0.25 cm. The beads from grave 529 are closer to fluen-globular forms, but their dimcnsions refer to those given for type III la pWBhres. i.e. of a woman at the age of Adultus (gravc 290) and a child at the age o! Infans Ulnfans II (grave 479), the nccklaces madę enlirely of type III beads oc-swred. In gravc 529 (no anthropological data available) and grave 381 containing w adult person’s burial, they were accompanied by type II beads, and in the last "rasre there was an amber bead.

Beads of type IV (Fig. 3: 9; Fig. 4: 1-4) were found only in grace 489. 27 wempliis in total (Fig. 1: B). Those specimens hacc a shapc of a morę or less "aitcned spherc and a few of them refer to ring-shaped forms. Ali of them are big,