Puck, ul. 1 Maja 3, dz. 168. Badania w latach 2014-2015

Abstrakt

In 2014 and 2015, open-areaarchaeologicalexcavations were conducted on the plot no. 168 located in 1 Maja Street no. 3, in Puck. The works were financed by the National Science Centre (NCN) and performed as a part of a research project titled ‘The material culture of Puck in the late Middle Ages. Archaeological portrait of asmall town on thesouthern coast of the Baltic Sea’ (2013/ 09/D/HS3/04468) and directed by Michał Starski. The excavations were limited to an urban plot located in the eastern part of the historical chartered town and facing the 1 Maja Street, circa 50 m from the market square (Fig. 1). Itsentirearea was freefrom any contemporary housing and thusavailableforarchaeologicalexploration, which involved performing twelve trenches covering nearly 95% of the plot, i.e. circa 4 ares. Cases such as the above-mentioned excavations, when the whole area of an urban plot was available for exploration, are rare in Puck. They provided abundance of information regarding settlement predating the chartering of the town, which enabled reconstruction of the spatial arrangement of the plot and the material culture of its inhabitants. The discovery of remains of five residential buildings functioning in different time-periods in the frontal part of the plot was particularly valuable, since it shed light on a subject only exiguously addressed by previous studies. An analysis of the original dimensions of dwellings within the investigated housing block showed also that in all likelihood this area was divided into two plots. The discussed archaeological excavations yielded more than thirty thousand moveable finds which will support reconstruction of household fittings used by people inhabiting this area over approximately the last seven centuries.