Grzybowo
A village in Września county, in Września commune, about 7 kilometres to the north east of Poznań.
The Grzybowo Burgh
it was created around 915 – 935 in 2 stages:
– firstly, as a small 80 metres in diameter in the north-west part of the gord,
– secondly as the burgh we know now.
Bloom of it was actually really short, lasted only until the second half of the X-th century. The remaining gord, which area along with banks is 4,7 hectares and the area of it’s interior is 2,3 hectares, is definitely a proof of significant size of the burgh itself.
The first archaeological works here were conducted in the 70’s of the XIX-th century. At the end of that century archeologists found a silver treasure hidden in a dish of clay. In the 30’s of the XX-th century the gord was explored by Olgierd Brzeski (a secondary school pupil at the time), who was a guest of Lutomscy; Grzybowo owners. Brzeski was so fascinated by this historical place that in 1991 he founded the Brzescy Foundation, by the Poznań Society of Friends of Learning, which it’s main role is to finance the archaeological explorations. In 2000 was also founded The Society of Friends of the Grzybowo Burgh. It’s task is to support the research and popularize it’s results, as well as the developing the area for tourist needs.
As a result of all excavations up to now, archeologists were able to examine over 10% of the gord’s grounds. They founds few thousands of various treasures; like for example pottery fractions from which it was possible to reconstruct several dozen of dishes, many goods from a stone (sharpening stones, spindle whorls), bones (awls, needles, arrowheads), wood (an arrow, a fragment of wheel), iron (knives, curved sewing pins) and non-ferrous metals (ornaments from silver or lead). A truly sensational event happened in 1999 when archeologists probably discovered another part of the treasure found in the XIX-th century – almost 700 fragments of coins and 150 ornaments. The coins are Arabic dirhams from the VIII-th to half of the X-th century. Also, in 2003, they found a precious ring of the Vikings made of bronze. This allows to assume that they were serving in the burgh, perhaps as as a team protecting a prince who was residing here.