Od tamy szkieletowej do wału obronnego na Ostrowie Tumskim w Poznaniu
From a timber frame dam to a defensive bank on Ostrów Tumski in Poznan
comments on the structure of the youngest line of the fortifications
Author(s): Mateusz SikoraContributor(s): Ewa Dratwa (Translator)
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Local History / Microhistory, Military history, Middle Ages, 6th to 12th Centuries
Published by: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
Keywords: Poznań; early-medieval banks; hydrotechnical devices
Summary/Abstract: The author analysed woven fascines located under the northern piece of the defensive banks of the Poznan stronghold (registered at the 5 Posadzego site) and identified them as remains of hydro-technical infrastructure. The structures, similar to the contemporary timber frame structures, had the task of accumulating the material (sand) carried by the river along the line of the planned defensive banks. Similar structures had been discovered in the northern part of the 17 Ostrów Tumski site yet their function was not identified. The author also presents the chronology of the specific phases of the bank construction (based on the results of tree-ring-dating) and structure elements (pilots, starlings, the bank’s turn, stone foundations). This is also an indication of an intended constructing the Poznan cathedral as the possible reason for extending the range of the fortifications around 980.
Journal: Historia Slavorum Occidentis
- Issue Year: 2018
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 68-85
- Page Count: 18
- Language: Polish