Unerhörtes Glück. Verschollene und wiederentdeckte Funde aus den Fürstengräbern von Lübsow (Lubieszewo, pow. Gryfice, woj. zachodniopomorskie, PL)

• Published in: Praehistorische Zeitschrift Vol. 98; no. 1; p. 379
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin Walter de Gruyter GmbH 07.06.2023
• Subjects: Archaeology; Cemeteries; Cultural anthropology; Forensic anthropology
• ISSN: 0079-4848; 1613-0804
• DOI: 10.1515/pz-2022-2057

Unheard-of luck. Lost and rediscovered finds from the princely graves at Lübsow (Lubieszewo, pow. Gryfice, woj. zachodniopomorskie, PL)Between 1942 and 1944, the most valuable parts of the collection of the Pommersches Landesmuseum in Stettin were evacuated to selected sites for fear of bombardment and the loss of cultural property, and left in the care of trusted persons, mainly representatives of well-known Pomeranian landowners. One of these removal sites was the Moltow estate (today Mołtowo). The finds evacuated to the property Moltow had been removed from the manor house under unknown circumstances between the late 1940s and early 1970s. They prove that after the end of the war they were preserved in good condition for at least a few years in the place where have been deposited before 1945, and that they were probably scattered and partly destroyed in the following years. In 2016, finds bearing inventory numbers of the former Pommersches Landesmuseum were discovered by chance in Mołtowo (the former Moltow) in the area of a former sand pit used as a rubbish dump. They were professionally recovered by employees of the Muzeum Narodowe Szczecin and the Museum of Polish Weaponry in Kołobrzeg. This collection also include finds from three Early Roman Iron Age princely graves at Lübsow (Lubieszewo). They are presented and described here as a supplement to the monograph on the graves of Lübsow published in 2010.