A05_P05
Absolute dating of the rampart of an Early Iron Age hillfort in Chotyniec (Poland) in the context of radiocarbon dating
Krapiec M 1, Czopek S2, Tokarczyk T2
1AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland, 2University of Rzeszow, Rzeszow, Poland
The Early Iron Age hillfort in Chotyniec near Radymno (south-eastern Poland, 8 km west of the current Poland–Ukraine border) has been systematically excavated since 2017. It is the mostly north-west located hillfort of the Scythian cultural circle in its forest-steppe variant.
It has an earthen rampart within which no archaeological material allowing dating was found. At the bottom of the rampart there is a central trench, probably for a palisade, which was the oldest fortification. The radiocarbon method was used for dating of 20 samples of charcoal and fragments of wood. The duration of successive phases of the rampart was determined using a Bayesian model, allowing the calculation of probability distributions for the beginning, end and possible duration in calendar age.
The end of the functioning of the first phase (with the central pit) can be identified in the 2nd half of the 7th-1st half of the 6th century BC. The earthen rampart, like the previously dated zolnik, was functioning in the 6th century BC.