 So my name is Jan Bulas and my co-authors is Magdalena Końska and Piotr Kotowicz, me and Magda we are from Jagiellonian University Cracow and Piotr is from Historical Museum of Sanok, the name of the mountain is Wrocław, and okay so let's start. I will be talking today about what we think is really fascinating and interesting place located in the southeast of Poland. It's called Wrocław Mountain again, it is located in the upper sun river basin and I will just start from few preliminary information because before the start of this decade we knew only one metal deposit from the whole region, dated to the Bronze Age. However due to the very intensified metal detector ring, illegal metal detector ring in the region, now we have much more metal deposits from the region of different dating and there is a good and a bad news, the bad news is that we don't know how many of them just disappeared from our record. The good news is that thanks to the very active role of my colleague Piotr, we are able sometimes to excavate those finds in situ and retrieve them from their original locations. So I won't be talking about all of those deposits in the mountains because the talk is too short. However just to give you the impression there is really a lot of metal deposits dating to the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. From this region right now they share a few common characteristics, they often have bronze wires, bracelets, necklaces, axes and very often parts of agricultural tools and they are in most cases located high on the mountain, not as high as 2000 meters, the mountains are not so high but close to the peak of the mountains. So here you see the examples of those metal deposits, this is the earliest Iron Age deposit we know from that region, dated to the Harstad period. But in this talk we will concentrate on what we think is the most important, at least in the current state of research. The most important place, the Vrotchen mountain, 498 meters high and as you can see it is really a lonely mountain. It has completely different shape than other mountains in the region. And what is important to say, it is located on the border of different geographical regions. To the southeast we have the Swanne mountains, which are ranges of mountains. To the north there is Bukovsky uphill, to the south we have Bukovsky uphill, to the north we have Dinovsky uphill. Also different characteristics, different landscapes and to the west we have flat basins. So the Vrotchen mountain is really well visible from the very distant areas and it is a very important landmark in the landscape. And why it is important, the reason for that is that it is the only place we can see continuing tradition of depositing metal objects through the prehistory. This is the earliest known deposit from the mountain, dating to the early Harstad. And again it consists the bracelets, necklaces, eggs and agricultural tools. This is another one, you will see the overview. Unfortunately it is not in our hands yet. The fragments of golden wire and close by also the sickles were found. What is important to say is that all of those deposits are very, they were located very shallow. The metal detectorists in most cases did not have to dig deep, they were just in the top soil. So excavations and sondash excavations that we made afterwards did not give us any context of any features of any kind. And this is not a deposit of different metals but also an important find that it gives us the information about dating of people activity on the mountain because it is fusturable in dating to the Harstad D. But what is most interesting on the site are Latin period deposits. And here to just give you some, a little bit of background, we don't really know a lot about settlement chronology in this region. There are really little, not that much finds that gives us a good overview that would say what is the continuity of settlement from the Harstad period to the Latin period and later to the Roman period. So actually those metal finds are basically 90% of all metal finds from the whole region. So it's not like we have different settlements where we have, I don't know, brutes or different chronologically distinctive finds that allows us to show the continuity very well in the whole region. So it's important place not only for us from the point of view of importance of the mountain but for a whole understanding of the whole settlement structure in the region. So in this deposit you can see the Dornberg type knife and also agricultural tools and some axes. And most probable it was the same deposit as the, it was originally the same deposit with the two uncles also very good dating evidence for third century before Christ. And this is one of the earliest evidence of for Latin period people in this region. However, there is a problem the Latin period deposits are located on the really steep slope and we really don't know if, and we don't know if those two deposits was originally one because it is quite possible that it eroded from the upper parts of the of the mountain. And this is the second Latin period deposit consisting again agricultural tools and some iron fragments of the horse harshness. And right now you can see the pattern that continues from the bronze age to the Latin period that we have those the same objects in in those deposits arm rings agricultural tools fragments of horse harshnesses. And there are the same type of objects all the time. And what is, if you, I won't elaborate more about those finds but the Latin period finds were already published you can find those publications is in the Internet if you would like to have close information about the Latin period finds. You can find them published by my colleagues Tomor Bohnak and Piotr Kotowicz as well as Zanopielowska. And we have one very interesting and important analogy for our mountain which would be only second such an important site related to the religious or ritual practices. It is a famous site in the Schlencher Mountain in the western Poland. You will hear more about it in the next paper I believe so I won't tell you more right now, but it is considered to be one of the most important religious sites for the prehistory in whole region and very important landmark as well. However, the story of the mountain doesn't ends on the Latin period. There is more however the history of the metal deposits ends, which is very interesting because we don't know how it relates to the changes of population in that region. And as you can see which I didn't mention before all of those deposits are again located high on the mountain. There is one find which is most ambiguous for us because we are not sure how to date it and we know really not a lot about this find. It can be a Roman period which would be really strange, but it can be also a medieval period so just to show you that there are some mysteries for us still. However, the main story relates to the Roman period which is one of the most important settlement periods in that region as we know many sites from that time in the area. We think that in this period of time the region was very densely populated in comparison with previous periods and also with later periods. However, from that period of time we do not know any deposits on any mountains so we can see a change of attitude towards those mountains and surroundings. However, just last year we finished excavating a very small burial ground just on the foot of the mountain, on the slopes on the foot of the mountain, which was also quite remarkable. I won't be talking about each graves, I'm just showing you for the impression. We had 10 graves, half of them were very richly furnished with weaponry, Roman imports, and actually we do not know if the location of the burial ground is actually connected with the importance of the mountain, or is it just in connection with the fact that we have also two important settlements, or interesting, we don't know how important they were, but we have two settlements from that period just nearby. And the problem is we do not have any good context, it is only the second burial ground from the whole southeastern Polish region, so we do not know what were the practices and what was the typical practice of setting the burial grounds in that period in that region. However, it is still very interesting because usually the preverse culture, which is the culture occupying this region in the Roman period, is the most rich in weaponry in graves from all European barbaricum, and still half of the graves being furnished so richly is quite remarkable. So just to post a few questions to the end, there are much more of course, but I think the first one is quite obvious and we can answer them that yes, we think that the mountain was a really important place from the Bronze Age to the Latin period as a place of ritual activities may be connected with the agricultural calendar. Especially we do not have a St. Patrick's seat and the rolling sun, so we cannot actually say anything more about it right now, but it's quite possible that it is connected with the agricultural calendar and the other questions are important as well. For me, one of the most interesting is that if the religious system changed between the Latin period and the Roman period, as we have a new population, preverse culture population came from the north from the lowlands, so it is a question if just the attitude to the mountains changed with the traditions brought from the other type of landscape. So thank you for your attention.