The Research of the 16th Century Dwelling in the Central Part of Ostroh City

The findings from dwelling 57 of the 16th century discovered in Ostroh in the excavation at 3, Nezalezhnosti Avenuethe are studied in the paper, using the planographic and stratigraphic analyses as well as typological characteristics of the artifacts. The dwelling was built near the western corner of the city Market; according to the 1603 act of ownership division Lutsk Street, which led from the Market to the Lutsk Gate, just started there. The building was destroyed by fire and its land part cannot be traced; the object under study was a large basement about 2.5 m deep. At the first stage of the building’s functioning, the walls were ca. 5.5—6.0 m long. After the reconstruction at the second stage, the basement was reduced to 4.0 Ч 4.2 m. Numerous findings within the object, including pottery, tiles and other decorations of the furnace, represent the material culture of wealthy residents of the city in the mid-sixteenth century. The pottery is represented by three technological groups, the first and second of which preserve the traditions of Volhynian pottery craft of the 15th — early 16th centuries. The artifacts of the third group, which predominate in quantity, reflect the innovations, in particular the expansion of the range of pottery products and the use of new ornamentation techniques — painting with red clay and covering the surface with different colors. Innovations can also be traced in the decoration of the furnace. It was decorated mainly with box-shaped tiles with embossed ornaments, in which one of the most common elements was a rosette. The rosette motif is also present on the plate that completes the furnace. For many ceramic furnace decorations of dwelling 57 there are the parallels in Poland, perhaps some of them were brought to Ostroh, and others were made by local artisans according to the imported models

Geography · Historical and Cultural Studies of Poland · History

• Volhynian Ceramic Complexes of the Late 14th — First Third of the 16th Centuries

  Open Access•B Pryshchepa, O Pryshchepa•Archaeology and Early History of…•2024

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