 in banking age era and well besides the early medical Scandinavia my research of interest is around relationships between Slavic and Scandinavian tribes and theory of archaeology and currently working on my PhD thesis supervisor of my of my thesis professor and initially I thought to take some notes and read it here but actually I'm hunting on revenue retention so here it goes and today I would like to introduce you the trousseau settlement which was a Viking part of trade in the early medieval as I said and what is really important it is known from the written source and because written source because we only have one source it is the Wolfson's report trousseau is located in northern Poland it's seven kilometers south from Udańsk around 10 kilometers south from Elblom and here you can see it on the map where I put a pin and of course the structure of the geography changed a bit since the early medieval so back in days trousseau was strictly connected through the river to the Baltic Sea and what is quite important it is located on the borderland we can say because from the west we have Slavic traces from the east we have West Baltic traces so it's a quite borderland well history of the search for the trousseau is a quite good story itself for a totally separate paper anyway this is quite interesting and romantic story so I decided to briefly summarize it and why was it so tempting to find trousseau of course because of the of the Wolfson's report I won't quote you can of course read it there are not a lot of information of trousseau itself it tells more about the journey of Wolfson who took a trip from the head of it to trousseau but it according to this information we were able to to show how probably his road looked like and where more or less might be the trousseau so in the early 20th century before the second world war there were a lot of attempts of finding the trousseau it was a German archaeologist after the second world war there were also a few attempts of finding the trousseau you can see the points on the map there are a lot of a lot of mentioned places where trousseau supposed to be from but actually the proper location of trousseau was unknown until an early spring of 1981 it was a lazy Sunday while Marike Gudziński those days Andonia and young Polish archaeologists know a good scholar and probably my father he took a rise from from album where he lived bicycle ride to the nearby villages and accidentally he found some remains of the caravan of course though he didn't know what he found actually that was a piece of caravan from the trousseau settlement so after years of research he became more clear and clear what he found so maybe this is a good idea to take a bicycle ride on your on your free Sunday and find some some settlements by the way this is the bike called Hurricane and this is the discoverer and the main researcher few photographs from the settlement and what I what I like to say today what was most important how are we supposed to treat the trousseau settlement I see it as an example of Baltic emporias also I put the German term Z-Handus plus because it's great it shows a great way of explaining the meaning of that of the settlement like the sea like the trade what kind of settlement it was so it was located close to the sea and settlement was separated with a parcels of course quite important was the port function but there would not be any point of having a port function without any devil craft and trade so that was the actually basis of trousseau this kind of settlement as well as other Baltic emporias and what we know from the archaeological research is absolutely lack of agriculture animal husbandry inside the settlement so it was provided just by the by the peripherias and quite important was long distance contacts as saw as impact seed as part of a network of nodal points first I would like to briefly describe the settlement organization and location of trousseau there were port and craft and trade area all of them were settled by Scandinavians according to the archaeological data quite different it looks at the periphery because there were a different type of buildings different type of our archaeological data we also find things like slavic pyramid we can assume there were some or slaves or maybe slavic slavic inhabitants inside this Scandinavian settlement once again the location of trousseau and actually this is the only evidence of the port character despite the the written source we didn't find any actually remains which you could look at the previous presentation like the balls or something we only have a ball track due to the to the conditions of the settlement that's only thing that we could register but there would not be this kind of trade this kind of important trade in the region without craft so we can basically say they were blacksmithing silversmithing production of bone and glass and and what are the basis why I saying we are talking about Scandinavian settlement according to those findings I hope it will be a more clear picture first of all we have iron crampons you can see it it proves that the settlement were used all the year also in a in the winter you can also see the iron anvil handlers or blacksmithing tongs and here when we come to the silversmithing it becomes more and more clear about this Scandinavian origins of the settlement let's take a look at this pendant it shows a valkyria holding halls by a bridle actually it's a piece of art but you can imagine yourself how it looks if it were complete or a woman in a long dress it's also very typical pendant for the viking era silversmithing and quite interesting thing he is here it's an amulet it's a ring closed in two belt separators what's more a lot of brooches like shield shaped brooches or three-armed brooches it's it's typical Scandinavian artifacts as well as woman after production like this composite one sided camp and for handles or which is very important this one's semi-spherical piece for a board game never happen was a Scandinavian board game the quite same things you can find it here also a piece for a board game never happen but also crosses a door hammer made with an umber but why do we know there were an umber production because we have also raw material not only the main products the final product also a lot of a lot of raw material as well it comes to the glass production we have semi-fabricates as well as made glass bags okay so there were a lot of items of trade I see now maybe item is not the right words to describe the slabs but I mean people were treated as items maybe it's correct anyway all those things but I would like to come to the basis of economy and of course it was based on the ceramic silver coins these are and here comes from the from the Baghdad you can see also folding balances and two types of ways these are said these are spherical weights and cubo octadro weights two types of them and it might show how the how the structure of the balding emporious look like back in days that's the network and and the model made by sorenson back you can also see the truso as one of the settlement included here and for me what is really important is to answer the question what is that actually the meaning of the settlement like okay we have archaeological data this is really nice but what it tells us about the people we have a few theories that we might try to use it first of all it is immobile water slide world system analysis theory there's no place and no time to describe the theory itself but it shows the connection between a core and periphery well core as a settlement as an example might be put up where more richer more wealthy than periphery yes so so so the core rich or use that poor periphery so this is one point of view we can also see it isn't some kind of globalization phenomenon I want equal of course the globalization modern terms early medical reality anyway as I'm a pura says what globalization is it's a tool of people technologies images and money and face of the globe so when we see things like immigration of sauce and the natives and in Russia's all around the Baltic Sea as a global people etc. etc. I can read it here we have for example money from the from the back up we have Scandinavians in North America so there are quite huge migration and maybe we can call it the so-called globalization early medical biking globalization phenomenon that's the still the matter of further further studies anyway what has already been done there are more or less 150 papers there were 20 backers masters and doctoral thesis about through so settlement and we have already 20 excavation seasons but more interesting is what what will come next well according to my PhD thesis there are doing some research about Slavic and Scandinavian relations of course it will include through so settlement until now we don't have we didn't found a great field and actually it's probably located but still there were no excavations so I hope we we can have some some money and make excavations of the great field through so inhabitants and may go is to after making paul research to create an open-air museum like for example this one in Fort Beacon that's it