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Fig. 1. Kolosy, county Kazimierza Wielka. Sketch of graves discovered under the mantle of tumulus I Ry . 1. Kolosy, pow. Kazimierza Wielka. Plan grobów odkrytych pod nasypem kurhanu I

a feature could be the burial mound in Zagaje Stradowskie, but its chronology raises some doubts (Burchard 1998).

When the excavation started, the burial mound in Kolosy had already been much plowed away: approx. 30 meters in diameter, it was only 90 cm high (Kempisty 1978, 233). The excavation did not cover its entire area; the eastern and the northern sections of the embankment remained partly unexplored. Within the embankment, three archaeological features were found (nos. 2-4; Fig. 1); moreover, two modern digs containing materials from the first half of the 20th century were documented in the central area. The fills of these features included a considerable amount, approx. 200 kg, of limestone (Kempisty 1978, 234). In Kempisty’s opinion, the modern digs destroyed a central grave located under the mound (“Grave 1” in his description), which he concluded not only from the presence of the limestone but also from fragments of a CWC amphora recovered from one of the modern digs and from the humus layer (Kempisty 1978, fig. 274). It should be noted, however, that the only elear tracę of “Grave 1” located somewhere near the digs was a concentration of stones analogous to those within Feature 4 discussed below (which may mean that Graves 1 and 4 had a similar structure). The pottery fragments could have been related to the grave, but they could also have fallen there accidentally when the grave was being filled in.