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case of mould clay, hand-made vessels) and B:1-2a,b types for vessels
produced on slowly rotating wheel (so named Baltic ware). Vessels
occurred in both Prussian and Curonian cemeteries correspond mostly
to the ware occurred in settlements. If the amount of hand-made vessels
in Prussian and Curonian settlements has remained quite large, the
situation is very different in use of pottery and especially of Baltic ware
in Prussian and Curonian cremation cemeteries. Thus only vessels
made on slowly rotating wheel or their potsherds were found in 50-80%
of Prussian cremation graves of the 11 th -13 th centuries in contrast to the
all types potsherds found only in 10-30% of the same period Curonian
cremations.
I.5. Arms, their types and statistics in Prussian and Curonian
cemeteries of the 11 th –13 th centuries
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Situation with arms in Prussian and Curonian area in the 11 th -
13 th centuries is similar in general.
Comparing Northern Prussian and South Curonian statistics of
graves with arms, it should be noted that in Prussian area they occurred
from 8 to 81% (37% at average) of all graves number, although in
many cases they exceed 50%, while the Curonian cremation graves
with arms of the same time period makes from of 5 up to 67% (32% on
average). This means that graves with arms occurred in Prussian ceme-
teries, ignoring too heavy destroyed cemeteries, a bit more often than
those in Curonian ones.