Bracelet

The bracelet with ends in the form of snake heads, forged from iron, was found in the cemetery of the Przeworsk culture in Opoka, in the Końskowola commune, the Puławy poviat, Lublin Voivodeship. Research on this archaeological site was conducted in 1961-1962 by a Lublin archaeologist Zygmunt Ślusarski, later Director of the District Museum in Lublin.

The iron bracelet with stylised snake heads has a trapezoidal cross-section in the central part, and a triangular cross-section near the heads. The ends resembling snake heads were distinguished by two cylindrical thickenings, between which there is a flattened ball.

The ornament is an exceptional find in the cemeteries of the representatives of the Przeworsk culture (identified with the Vandals). It is probably a local product created based on patterns from the area of the Wielbark culture, whose representatives are called the Goths.

Finds of this type are known mainly from the eastern part of the territory of the Przeworsk culture, where they occurred mainly in the 2nd century AD. They testify to the mutual contacts of the two most important above-mentioned cultures occupying the territory of Polish lands in the so-called Roman period, that is in the first four centuries AD.