Malbork-Wielbark (woj. pomorskie / PL) und die Keltiké: Neues von einer fast vergessenen Nekropole

Abstract

The cemetery of Malbork-Wielbark in Northern Poland, the eponymous site of the Wielbark culture, has provided almost 2000 burials ranging from the early pre-Roman Iron Age until phase D1 of the early Migration Period; the main period of use clearly falls within the later Roman Imperial period. The extent of Celtic and Southern / East-Alpine influences in the early pre-Roman Iron Age and the onset of the Roman Imperial period in the necropolis, even considering the comparatively small number of pre-Roman burials (about 15 % of all graves), is modest and limited to a few elements of costume (especially fibulae of the type A.65, spoon-bow fibula, and the Noric-Pannonian type A.236). Contacts with the South, with the Keltiké and the (east) Mediterranean world do not seem to have been of central interest for local communities, despite their favourable location at the transregional North-South axis of communication.