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distr. Kołobrzeg. The excavations, started in 1962, were carried out on an earth-work at Bardy and on a cemetery of burial mounds at Swielubie. The earthwork, comprising two parts, was situated on elevated grounds. The smaller morę regular part revealed a rampart that protected the castle on the upland side. The rampart built of clay and laced with timber was probably erected in the 8>^h century. In the later part of the 9^lh century it was destroyed by fire, while its rebuilding coincided with the erection of the rampart that surrounded the elevation on the river side. The second part was also fortified, probably as early as the 8¹*¹ century. Remains of eight houses of subterranean type were explored there. The finds included a fragmentary Arabie dirhem, objects of metal (spearhead, sickles, knives), clay whorls and whetstones. Ramparts of the smaller part were destroyed in the 2n^d half of the 10t*> century.

At Swielubie three burial mounds were examined. The shallow burial pits were filłed with burned materiał including charcoals and fragmentary human bones. Their furnishing was rather rich and consisted of iron objects, glass beads, a fragment of a coin and shield parts of iron and bronze. Some graves were also dug into the earth of the barrow. As a rule they were poorly furnished. The cemetery should be dated to the mid—9^,h — early 10th century.

Traces of an open early medieval habitation site came to light near the earthwork of Bardy.

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