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Niemen trade route could also play an important role in the distribution of Eastern imports in Prussian, Scalvian and South Curonian lands. 30 Mapping the distribution of artefacts of Curonian type in Prus- sian area, as well as imported goods in the whole micro-region of study, at least four key directions or routes of trade and communication be- tween Prussian and Curonian are identified: 1. Venta – Jūra/Minija/Danė– Niemen/Pregel trade route This road connects the North Curonia with Samland peninsula through Semigallian, Samogitian, Scalvian and Nadrovian lands. Goods could travel along this route passing Venta, Dane or Minija rivers or Niemen to the Curonian bay or through Instruč and Angrapa to the mouth of Priegel. Also, including possible Baltic Sea routes, this way could be a distant branch of Daugava trade route. Way of distribution of imported and local-made goods described above could be marked by the Curonian and Scalvian artefacts spread over to the south of the Niemen, towards the Instruch (Inster/Įsrutis), Priegel rivers and middle reaches of Deima, as occurring in South Scalvian and Nadrovian monuments: Breitenstein (Uljanovka), Linkuhnen, Pridorožnoje, San- ditten (Lunino), Tammowischken (Timofeevka) and in area of today’s Gusev (Gumbinnen). 2. Vistula Lagoon – Sambian peninsula – Curonian Lagoon/Baltic Sea trade route We believe that this is a major trade route, connecting South Curonia through the Prussian lands with the Vistula-Pomeranian route.
By this way some part of Western European goods could reach Sambia and Pilsotas lands. Thus, beginning in the area of Elbląg-Janów Pomor- ski, this road led through the lands of Pomesanians and Varmians (or directly) to the Vistula Lagoon and then further to the estuary of Pregel and surroundings of former Königsberg. Afterwards European imports could travel by the old land way “Königsberg-Cranz”, thereby reaching the area of Kaup-Wiskiauten-Wosegau network of the 11 th -13 th settlements, while passing through the Curonian Lagoon and reaching Žarde- Laistai settlements complex. This trade route is marked not only by bright range of European imports in Sambian peninsula, but also by Curonian types of ornaments occurred in the mouth of Pregel and on Northern shores of Vistula Lagoon: Pokarben (Brandenburg/Ušakovo), Šosejnoje-1 etc. Most of the Curonian-typical forms of ornaments in Prussian area were found precisely on the axis of an old land route “Königsberg-Cranz”: Kaliningrad district, Kleinheide, Kovrovo (Dollkeim), Klincovka-1, Kaup-Wiskiauten-Wosegau, Sirenevo district (Ekritten I-III) and other cemeteries and settlements. In this way any Sambian or Curonian merchant could reach the Baltic sea through the Brokist strait at the bottom of Curonian Spit. 3. Northern Vistula Lagoon – Baltic Sea trade route Considered as a branch of previously described road, this trade route can be traced by the artefacts of Curonian types, as V type ladder brooches or bracelets with zoomorphic terminals, found in sites located along the Northern coast of Vistula Lagoon up from surroundings of today’s Kaliningrad to the Widitten-Konowedit, Bludau-II and 31
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Page 3 and 4: KLAIPĖDOS UNIVERSITETAS LIETUVOS I
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Page 21 and 22: All Prussian and Curonian both gene
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Page 29: oval steels with up-twisted termina
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Page 35 and 36: Cylindrical padlocks and their keys
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