Bodzia Cemetery

Bodzia Cemetery - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Bodzia Cemetery is a large 10th – 11th century chamber burial site in Bodzia, a town in the Kuyavia region of Central Poland, approximately 15 km to the northwest of Włocławek. A group from the Polish Academy of Sciences, led by Polish archaeologist, Andrzej Buko, excavated this site between 2007 – 2009. The excavation uncovered a large elite necropolis containing more than 58 graves, cenotaphs, weapons and riches. The Bodzia Cemetery is considered to be one of the most significant and "spectacular"Andrzej Buko and Irena Sobkowiak-Tabaka, "Bodzia: A New Viking-Age Cemetery with Chamber Graves," Antiquity Project Gallery 85, no. 330 (2011): available at, http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/buko330/ Early Medieval findings in Poland in the last century. Artefacts uncovered in the site were mostly of foreign origin, which is atypical of other sites in the area. Information gleaned from the Bodzia Cemetery provided archaeologists with evidence of burial practices during the Early Medieval period in Poland. Read more on Wikipedia

type: ancient site
date from: *Late 10th Century - Early 11th Century * Late 11th Century - Early 12th Century

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