Abstrakt

The article reports on preliminary results of fieldwork (twelfth season of regular excavation) made at Paprotki-Kolonia - cemetery of Bogaczewo Culture and Olsztyn Group - in the eastern area of the Great Mazurian Lakes Region (NE Poland). The month's long investigation carried out in 2003 focussed on the eastern part of the burial ground, with three trenches having a total area of 175 m2 . Thirty five graves were exposes (No. 229, 330- 334, 339-368; including a horse burial - No. 356), the fill of two lines of World War I military trenches (Features 1023 and 1045), their associated shelters (Features 1023 and 1044, 1045), and seven features associated with the buildings of a 20t h century farm abandoned in 1968. The dating of graves excavated in 2003 is consistent with chronological determinations made for the entire site at Paprotki Kolonia, which spans the Roman Period until the early phases of the Migrations Period (ca AD 1st - 5t h c.).