Archaeologists had been shocked to find the distinctive tomb of a medieval knight beneath an ice cream store within the seaside Polish metropolis of Gdańsk. The Thirteenth-century burial features a uncommon carving that in all probability depicts the knight himself.
“We found a big limestone tomb slab carved with the picture of a knight in full chainmail armor,” Sylwia Kurzyńska, an archaeologist with ArcheoScan who co-directed the excavation, advised Dwell Science in an e mail. The carved slab is uncommon in medieval Poland as a result of “just a few featured photos of the deceased,” she mentioned.
Kurzyńska and her team found the monument in the historic center of Gdańsk in July, when they were excavating the grounds of a stronghold used from the 11th to the 14th centuries. Within the stronghold were the remains of a castle, a church and a cemetery.
The carved tombstone has been preliminarily dated to the late 13th or early 14th century, Kurzyńska said. Roughly 59 inches (150 centimeters) long and made out of limestone imported from Gotland, Sweden, the slab exhibits a person standing upright in full armor and holding a sword and a defend.
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