Nowinka, Site 1: The Cemetery from the Late Migration Period in the Northern Poland

The cemetery in Nowinka, gm. (commune) Tolkmicko, pow. (district) Elbląg, site 1, Polish Archaeological Record (polish Archeologiczne Zdjęcie Polski – AZP), area 13-52, no 71 is located in the northern part of the Elbląg Upland, near the shore of the Vistula Lagoon. It belongs to a concentration of ca twenty burial grounds which functioned at late stage of Phase E, which can be dated, as it is generally believed, to the final decades of the 6th century and the early 7th century. Settlement points from that period are located near the edge of the Upland, between the mouth of the Pasłęka River and the southern edge of the 'Drużno Bay' reconstructed in the form it may have existed in the late Antiquity. This concentration was called the Elbląg group of the West Balt circle and the name has been generally accepted by scholars, although there are opinions that this group was subordinated to a cultural unit from the Sambian-Natangian area called by W. Nowakowski the Dollkeim-Kovrovo culture or indicating the mixed, Balt-German-Scandinavian character of the culture of that area, resulting in its lack of independent character.