Virtual exhibits
Jug, site 24, unit 117, 15th century
A jug of a cymoid profile and a slightly squat form. Its band lughole starts below the brim and ends where the body is its largest. The upper part of the body decorated with surrounding carvings and slight plastic panel. Burnt in a reductive atmosphere – grey earthenware. Vessel fracture: grey. Damaged: in some places, its external surface is secondarily stained with lime mortar.
Mug, site 24, unit 117, 15th century
A mug of a slight cymoid profile, covered with brown coating inside. The external surface covered with carvings. Its band lughole starts at the brim and ends just above where the body is its largest. The bottom is flat with its edge marked by a roll. Burnt in oxidizing atmosphere. Vessel fracture: bricky.
Coin – one-and-a-half crown by Sigismund III Vasa, site 24, unit 110 G, 1624.
Obverse: a five-field escutcheon with Polish and Lithuanian coats of arms; Vasa’s coat of arms (a sheaf) in the middle; legend: SIGIS 3 DGREX PMDL
Reverse: an orb with a cross and number 24; legend: MONE NO REG POLO; a date coined next to the orb: 24.
Coin – Prussian liege shilling by Wilhelm Hohenzollern, site 24, unit 110 F, 1654.
Obverse: an eagle with Vasa’s coat of arms on its chest; text around: FRID WILH MAR BR. S. PR EL.
Reverse: monogram: FW; the Hohenzollerns’ coat of arms under it; text around: SOLIDUS PR. USSIAE 1654.
Jug fragment, site 24, unit 66, 16th century
A jug – only its lower part has been preserved. The bottom part is visibly separated and has a foot decorated with three rows of surrounding carvings. A fragmentarily preserved stamp ornamentation surrounds the upper part. Burnt in an oxidizing atmosphere. Vessel fracture: bricky. The external surface covered with brown enamel.
Tile, site 24, unit 66, 15th century
A bowl-shaped tile with a circular bottom and square-shaped hole. Its profiled edges are turned inside. The external surface walls are ribbed. Burnt in an oxidizing atmosphere. Vessel fracture: grey and bricky.
Pot, site 24, unit 66, 15th century
A wide-hole pot. Reductive burning – grey earthenware. Vessel fracture: grey. The output turned outside. Surrounding carvings in the upper part of the body. The largest body diameter at ⅔ of the vessel height. The lower part of the surface has some traces of pitting.
Pot, site 24, unit 66, 15th century
A pot of a cymoid profile. Burnt in an oxidizing atmosphere. Vessel fracture: bricky and beige. The short neck turns into the largest diameter of the vessel at ⅔ of its height. A surrounding pit in the upper part of the body with a wide carving under it, which is the only form of ornamentation. The simple bottom is finished with a sharp edge.
Jug, site 24, unit 117, 15th century
A jug burnt in a reductive atmosphere – grey earthenware. Vessel fracture: grey. The vessel of a slight cymoid profile with the largest body diameter at the half of its height. Its outflow turned slightly inside. Its band lughole starts there and ends at the height of the largest diameter of the body. Several rows of flat, unclear carvings in the upper part of the body. The bottom is flat with carelessly finished edge.
Jug, site 24, unit 117, 15th century
A jug of a cymoid profile with a significantly bulgy body. Its band lughole starts below the outflow edge and ends at the largest diameter of the body. The upper part of the vessel, above the largest diameter, decorated with surrounding carvings. The surface polished to shine. Precise workmanship suggests that the vessel was a part of tableware.
Jug, site 24, unit 117, 15th century
A jug with a lughole. Reductive burning. The outflow diameter close in size to the bottom one. The jug profile is simplified, resembling a cylinder, with a small band lughole starting below the outflow edge and ending at the upper part of the body. Below the lughole, flat surrounding carvings, which are the only ornamentation motif. In some places, the surface is secondarily stained with lime mortar.
Moneybox, site 24, unit 66 , 15th century
A clay moneybox. A vessel with a spherical shape and a flat bottom. Burnt in a reductive atmosphere – grey earthenware. The upper part of the vessel, above the largest body diameter, decorated with surrounding carvings. Damaged vessel. The coin slot preserved only partially. Vessel fracture: grey.
Bowl, site 24, unit 66, 15th century
A bowl burnt in a reductive atmosphere – grey earthenware. The outflow turned outside. A small part of it is chipped. The bottom diameter close in size to the outflow one. There is a pit in the bowl profile at ⅔ of its height, additionally ornamented by a double carving. Vessel fracture: grey and brown.
Cannonball, site 24, unit 110, 15th century
A clay cannonball.
Cannonball, site 24, unit 110, 15th century
A stone cannonball.
Panel tile, site 24, unit 45, 16th/17th century
A middle panel tile – used for building furnace walls. Its central part shaped into a hollow hemisphere framed into floral motifs in the corners. Tile coating: green lead. Tile body colour: bricky.
Panel tile, site 24, unit 50, 17th century
A middle panel tile. The panel surface shaped into a slightly concave coffer made of four isosceles triangles. Tile coating: green lead. Tile body colour: bricky.
Panel tile, site 24, unit 50, 17th century
A middle panel tile with a moresque. The ornamentation shaped into stylized floral motifs placed on the tile surface in the form of a rosette surrounded by a profiled framing. Tile coating: green lead. Tile body colour: bricky.
Panel tile, site 24, unit 50, 17th century
A middle panel tile with a floral ornamentation. The tile surface divided into small square fields filled with floral motifs. The whole surrounded by a profiled framing. Tile coating: green lead. The body of the brick-colored tile.
Panel tile, site 24, unit 50, 16th century
A middle panel tile with a floral ornamentation of a thick, fleshy relief. The whole surrounded by a profiled framing.
Tile coating: green lead. The body of the brick-colored tile.
Frieze tile, site 24, unit 45, 17th century
A fragment of a frieze tile in the shape of a frill with a floral ornament. Olive-greenish – lead glaze. The body of the brick-colored tile.
Spindle whorl, Site 24, Unit 110 F2 , 17th century
An oval object with a hole in its middle.