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DOI article:Zapolska, Anna: The solidus of Heraclius from Wargen in Sambia – reconsidered
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ANNA ZAPOLSKA
the cultures in Scandinavia and the Danube area some forms resembling Danubian
patterns would also turn up in this territory. The last forms that began to appear
in this area are fibulae as well as horse harness elements and beit fittings based on
Merovingian patterns.42
Hilberg indicates that the appearance of imports and forms imitating Scandinavian
and Merovingian patterns may suggest that the Western Baltic territories were also
seen as an attractive market, for the existence of such items would suggest that
the peoples here bartered and engaged in trade activity, while the predominance
of East-Merovingian forms would suggest that the prevailing mode of commerce
was land trade carried out in stages, apparently confirmed by the considerable role
that horses played among the Germanie and Baltic populations. The presence of
burial grounds with horses and that of numerous harness parts may also indicate
that humans were highly mobile during the Migration Period.43
Recent finds indicate that Germanie artefacts, including those from the Merov-
ingian milieu, datable to the turn of the 6* and 7th centuries, but also to the first
half of the 7* Century, also arrived in both Kujavia, Central Poland (Kalisz area),
and northern Greater Poland.44 That relations were maintained within territories
in south-eastern Europę via the peoples settled in the Middle Danube region may
be confirmed by the appearance of amber, as found in archaeological contexts in
the Carpathian Basin and to the north of the Black Sea (Southern Ukraine), datable
to the second half of the 6* and first half of the 7* Century.45
We should also mention that communication existed between the Balts and
the Carpathian Basin territories (where both Slavs and Avars were living at the time),
this communication taking place during the final phase of the Migration Period.46
Despite the very small number of extant artefacts of Avar provenance (cf. further
on), their existence is still testimony to the fact that culture influences from almost
the whole of Contemporary Europę intersected over a relatively small area along
the Southern Baltic coast. It was only the second half of the 7* Century that was
marked by a gradual departure from unification and by a tendency to underscore
one’s own regional culture-bound characteristics.
42 Ibidenr. 339, 341.
43 Ibidem: 340.
44 http://www.mpov.uw.edu.pl/en/thesaurus/archaeological-sites/gaski; KONTNY and RUDNICKI 2016:
307-318.
45 CURTA2007: 62 Map 4.1, 70 Map 4.2.
46 HILBERG 2009: 342.
the cultures in Scandinavia and the Danube area some forms resembling Danubian
patterns would also turn up in this territory. The last forms that began to appear
in this area are fibulae as well as horse harness elements and beit fittings based on
Merovingian patterns.42
Hilberg indicates that the appearance of imports and forms imitating Scandinavian
and Merovingian patterns may suggest that the Western Baltic territories were also
seen as an attractive market, for the existence of such items would suggest that
the peoples here bartered and engaged in trade activity, while the predominance
of East-Merovingian forms would suggest that the prevailing mode of commerce
was land trade carried out in stages, apparently confirmed by the considerable role
that horses played among the Germanie and Baltic populations. The presence of
burial grounds with horses and that of numerous harness parts may also indicate
that humans were highly mobile during the Migration Period.43
Recent finds indicate that Germanie artefacts, including those from the Merov-
ingian milieu, datable to the turn of the 6* and 7th centuries, but also to the first
half of the 7* Century, also arrived in both Kujavia, Central Poland (Kalisz area),
and northern Greater Poland.44 That relations were maintained within territories
in south-eastern Europę via the peoples settled in the Middle Danube region may
be confirmed by the appearance of amber, as found in archaeological contexts in
the Carpathian Basin and to the north of the Black Sea (Southern Ukraine), datable
to the second half of the 6* and first half of the 7* Century.45
We should also mention that communication existed between the Balts and
the Carpathian Basin territories (where both Slavs and Avars were living at the time),
this communication taking place during the final phase of the Migration Period.46
Despite the very small number of extant artefacts of Avar provenance (cf. further
on), their existence is still testimony to the fact that culture influences from almost
the whole of Contemporary Europę intersected over a relatively small area along
the Southern Baltic coast. It was only the second half of the 7* Century that was
marked by a gradual departure from unification and by a tendency to underscore
one’s own regional culture-bound characteristics.
42 Ibidenr. 339, 341.
43 Ibidem: 340.
44 http://www.mpov.uw.edu.pl/en/thesaurus/archaeological-sites/gaski; KONTNY and RUDNICKI 2016:
307-318.
45 CURTA2007: 62 Map 4.1, 70 Map 4.2.
46 HILBERG 2009: 342.