Underwater archaeologists from the University of Warsaw discovered, in one of the lakes in Kujawy,several items made by Celtic blacksmiths.
photo: University of Warsaw
Archaeologists diving in the Kujawy lakes found sickles and fragments of iron sword sheaths and chain belts on which the Celts hung their melee weapons.
– The Celts were famous for offering weapons and blacksmithing, carpentry and cooking tools to the deities in waters – rivers, lakes, swamps – rock crevices or hard-to-reach places in the mountains. Our discovery fits into a set of such sacrificial finds. This is the first ritual lake site of the Celts in the lands of today's Poland. The discovery is revolutionary also because no one expected Celts so far north already in the 3rd century BC, because this is how the finds are dated - says Prof. Bartosz Kontny, dean of the Faculty of Archeology of the University of Warsaw, head of the Underwater Archeology Laboratory.
The Celts (or Gauls) are an Indo-European people who also lived in the lands of today's Poland. Until recently, it was believed that their headquarters stretched from England to the Carpathian Basin, from southern France, the Iberian Peninsula and northern Italy to Silesia, Lesser Poland and the San basin. A decade ago it was proven that Celts also lived in Kujawy in the 1st century BC. The objects found by archaeologists from the Faculty of Archeology of the University of Warsaw date back to the 3rd century BC, which prompts a revision of the current vision of the past of our lands.
source: University of Warsaw
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