St. Cordula Society for the Antiques Rescue members discovered a richly decorated dagger from the Halstatt period in a clay lump detached from a cliff on the Baltic coast. The unusual relic was donated to the Museum of the History of Kamień Land.

“This is my most valuable discovery. Accidental. The cliff was broken; the lump must have fallen from above. I went into this place with a metal detector because I started to +bell+ there,” Jacek Ukowski, president of the St. Cordula Exploration Association for Saving Monuments in Kamień Pomorski, said.

Ukowski explored the Baltic beach with Katarzyna Herdzik, a colleague from the organisation. Together, they made a remarkable discovery. 

The dagger found in a clay lump detached from the cliff after a storm is probably 2,800 years old. This is the Halstadt period, the early Iron Age. It is very richly decorated all along the handle and blade. It measures precisely 24.2 cm.

“A real work of art! In terms of workmanship, it is very high-class and beautifully ornamented. Each engraved element is different. As far as finds in the Polish territory are concerned, I have not come across such a dagger,” Grzegorz Kurka, director of the Kamień Land History Museum.

The Museum of the History of Kamień Land has already posted photos and a short description of the finding on their social media.

Source: PAP

Photo: Muzeum Ziemi Kamieńskiej

Tomasz Modrzejewski