2024

The 2024 research season at the Poręba Dzierżna 24 site lasted from July 3 to August 12,
2024. The research was led by Dr. Magdalena Sudoł-Procyk from the Institute of Archaeology of the
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. It was also attended by M.A. Magdalena Malak, M.A. Hubert
Binnebesel and graduates and students of archaeology from Toruń. As part of the consultation, the
site was visited by: Dr. Dagmara H. Werra from the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the
Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and Dr. Janusz Budziszewski and Dr. Michał Szubski from the
Institute of Archaeology of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw.
In the 2024 research season, work continued in Trench I, expanding it to the south and
west. This resulted in two several-meter-long profiles, in which relics of individual mining shafts are
visible, as well as the stages of filling up unused facilities. The most interesting thing is that one of the
profiles observed a layer of brown, oily karst clay with flint concretions, in which the mining facility
was dug. This proves that prehistoric miners obtained this very good quality flint. At the site, we find
flake and precores made from these concretions.
Trench VII was also established, on the flattened terrain located in the upper part of the
site, approx. 50 m from Trench I towards the SE. At a depth of approx. 1.7 m from the surface, relics
of a prehistoric mining heap were found. In the upper part of the site, as part of H. Binnebesel's
doctoral project aimed at capturing the original location of the flint workshops, a series of
excavations and drillings were made with a hand auger. The information obtained expanded the
knowledge about the south-eastern boundaries of the site, and with it the boundary of the colluvial
process which in prehistory washed out and transported artifacts from the flint workshops.