Czermno / Cherven’: seasons 2022 and 2023. Interdisciplinary studies on site 2 Zameczek (hillfort suburb settlement). Chronology, archaeological features, finds analysis

The article discusses the results of the latest interdisciplinary studies on Site 2, ‘Zameczek’, a stronghold complex in Czermno (historical Cherven’). The fieldwork completed in 2022-2023 focused on Site 2 and included noninvasive investigations (GPR and LiDAR prospection), sondage excavation, laboratory analysis and conservation of archaeological finds, absolute dating, and desktop studies. The research objectives and questions formulated when embarking on the investigation of the suburb settlement addressed key issues related to its chronology and function. Another key task was recognising and recording the site’s stratigraphy. The two seasons of sondage excavations yielded thirty-eight functionally distinct features interpreted as utility pits, remains of upright timbers,remnants of wooden communication structures, fragments of a rampart (?) and an eco-feature. The excavation of archaeological deposits and features belonging to Phases I and II yielded an assemblage of more than 37,000 objects, most of them pottery.