The results of the rescue excavations conducted in 2012 at site 2 in Jakuszowice, Kazimierza Wielka commune, świętokrzyskie voivodeship

Rescue excavations conducted in 2012 at the site no. 2 in Jakuszowice, Kazimierza Wielka commune, have confirmed both the chronology of settlement development of the Przeworsk culture at the site and the agricultural character of this part of the settlement. Among the discovered features were storage pits accompanied by a few postholes and a fire-hearth, unfortunately partly damaged by more recent settlement related with the modern period phase of the development of the village. The retrieved artefacts (more than 6000) were exclusively pieces of ceramic vessels mostly belonging to the Przeworsk culture which were dated to the Younger pre-Roman period and Early and Late Roman period, and a few stone tools related with the Neolithic settlement and the Early Bronze Age. Moreover, numerous animal bones were found, which were the subject of separate archaeozoological analysis, as well as pieces of daub. Rescue excavations within the site were continued in the following months by the Kraków Team for Archaeological Supervision of Motorway Construction.