Abstract

This year’s archaeological excavations in the location town in Puck were carried out directly beyond its outline, in the zone of today’s scarp at the coast of the bay, to the north of ul. F. Ceynowy (site 1, AZP ‘Archeologiczne Zdjęcie Polski – Archaeological Record of Poland’ 04-42/ 31; Fig. 1). A 8×8 m trench was marked out, in order to examine the management of the coastal area, including a discovery of remains of the northern line of fortifications of Puck, which were hitherto unknown (Fig. 2). Based on completed works, itcan besaid that originally this area gently declined towards the bay and in this place there was no clear and steep edge of Kępa Pucka (‘Puck hillock’) (Fig. 3:D). Until the 19th c., this area was situated at a small distance (up to a dozen or so metres) from the coast of the bay of that time. This allows to suppose that a convenient access to the bay was one of the factors which influenced the selection of this place for settlement purposes in the Early Middle Ages. Thesettlement of that time is confirmed by finds of pottery vessels from the 13th c.