First results of metallographic analysis and absolute dating of iron finds from Nowe Brzesko, site 26, Proszowice District

This paper presents the results of analyses metal artefacts discovered at a multiphase site in Nowe Brzesko, Małopolskie Voivodeship, Poland. Fieldwalking prospection led to discovery steely iron objects, ploughed out on among other numerous archeological finds. A prospecting sondage yielded more corroded artefacts, identified mainly as agricultural tools (e.g. sickles, scythes). These chronologically nondistinctive could be assigned third fourth century AD using radiocarbon dating, complemented by metallurgical analysis. The open up new research perspectives economy and society Przeworsk culture Late Roman period.