Ozdoba brązowa, tarnobrzeska kultura łużycka, Pysznica
The archaeological heritage of Lower Nadsanya
New outdoor exhibition, from September 24, 2016, Market Square in Stalowa Wola-Rozwadow
The purpose of the exhibition is to introduce and popularize the archaeological heritage from the Lower Nadsany area.
The exhibition consists of a dozen richly illustrated text boards presenting traces of prehistoric settlement over several thousand years in the Nadsany region. It presents the most interesting and representative artefacts from the Stone Age through the Bronze and Iron Ages and the Middle Ages to the modern era obtained both during excavations, including archival ones, and from accidental finders.
Some of these relics are in the collection of the Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola, while some are in museums in Krakow, Rzeszow, Przemysl and Warsaw, since these very institutions received finds from our region from the late 19th to the 1990s before the Stalowa Wola museum was established.
Most of these finds are popular discoveries, often found during archaeological research. However, some of them are unique and rare. All of them enrich knowledge about the earliest past of Lower Nadsanie.
The huge corpse burial ground of the Tarnobrzeg Lusatian culture from 900/800-400 B.C. discovered in the village of Pysznica is one of the greatest discoveries of 20th century archaeology in Lower Nadsanie, which provided a rich collection of clay-urn vessels and bronze ornaments.
From the times of the Roman Empire, the exhibition features unique coins, as well as militaria and equipment of warriors of the Przeworsk culture, including: exquisite swords (e.g., a specimen from Rzeczyca Długa with an image of the goddess Victoria and a legionary eagle) and spearheads.
Rozwadów (now a district of Stalowa Wola), on the other hand, is known around the world for the discovery of a spearhead with a mysterious inlaid runic inscription.
Extremely interesting finds also come from exhumation and archaeological studies ofthe mass graves of World War I soldiers from the village of Zdziary.
The exhibition will be complemented by charts presenting issues related to the 1050th anniversary of the Baptism of Poland, prepared by the Museum of the First Piasts in Lednica.
Scenario and elaboration: Monika Kuraś (Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola)
Dr. Janusz Górecki (Museum of the First Piasts on Lednica)
Graphic elaboration: Lech Rowiński (Beton), Wojciech Kujawa (Museum of the First Piasts on Lednica)
