Survey at the Tatar cemetery in Studzianka

Poland
2017
survey
Studzianka, survey, Tatar, tatarski, Tatarzy

o projekcie

In 2017, the Tatar cemetery in Studzianka was subject to a professional non-invasive archaeological survey for the first time ever.

Everything started in 2016. It was just after the volunteers finished the cemetery site clean-up, which brought many questions and encouraged all those interested in the matter dealt with to gain a deeper insight into it. In 2017, the Cultural Heritage Foundation hired Fabian Welc, PhD, to survey the central part of the cemetery using a ground-penetrating radar and making use of magnetic survey. Why this particular part? A few gravestones having survived the test of time can be seen on its surface. It could be then assumed that there might have been some buried assets underneath. As the survey proceeded, we had more and more information available.

Measurements were performed in August of the same year. The collected data was then processed and analysed by Fabian Welc, PhD. The findings suggested that the central part of the cemetery could be hiding some anthropogenic deposits, so it could be a place of human burial.

As a result of the survey of the site of the Tatar cemetery in Studzianka, significant amounts of buried organic matter was discovered. When exploring lower parts, it was found that there were some remains of an older sacral building – most likely a mosque.

To find out more about the building itself, to determine its actual purpose, and to learn about its past, it will be necessary to perform verification testing – and this is the next task of the Foundation.

The survey conducted on the site of the cemetery in Studzianka so far has been financed from the Cultural Heritage Foundation’s own means.

All survey works have been carried out with the approval of the relevant conservation authorities and the site’s owner.

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