Parazytologiczne analizy kałów wykopaliskowych

The author investigated 167 samples of faeces found during research excavations of cultural soil layers in a Slav settlement (Ostrówek Opole) from the 10th-13th century. On base of an exterior aspect and of microscopic examination (fragments of plant tissues, quantity found, fragments of bone tissues) the kind of animals, to whom above faeces might have belonged, has been approximatively stated as fellows: 55 samples were probably faeces of big ruminants, 44 probably belonged to pigs, 12 samples were presumed to be faeces of small ruminants (ewe, goat). 8 samples of faeces were supposed to be those of a horse, 7 sampless have been classified as being most likely remnants of dog faeces, 16 samples were composed of compact animal manure together with litter, whereas 25 samples were found to be patrification, fragments of bones, carth. In 7 faeces invcstigated, eggs of Fasciola hepatica have been found. Those ova were yellowish in colour, without opercula, hollow inside, with sheli partly broken or defective (fig. 1-4). It should be emphasized that the eggs from faeces (inventory No 1808/54 and 3333/54) dated from the second half of the 10th century, thus belong to a still carlier period than the eggs which the author described in his farmer report (Grzywiński. 1954, 1952-60). Beside that, in the faeces, inventory No 300, 55, dating from the second part of the 11th century, the author has found 4 pieces of remnants looking like parasite ova (fig. 5-8), their dimantions being: length 56μ-63μ; width 37,5μ-45μ. Those segments have on one pole a damage, perhaps formerly an operculum; they are hollow inside with a shell fairly well conserved, light-yellow in colour. Those segments couln't be determined in a more precise way and some doubt exists whether they are eggs altogether.