| Abstract [eng] |
Before 1916, the Courland Province Museum received different archaeological finds of broad chronology (4,400/4,200 BC – the 16th century AD) from the old noble Lithuanian families and landowners of German nationality from Kaunas Province (210 units from 2 find spots; another two find spots in the northern part, in Samogitia, were mentioned). The most active collectors of artefacts and organisers of search (already in the Courland Province) were Counts Theodor and Otto Keyserlingk (the Malgūžė–Daunorava branch). In some cases, the collections belonged to the antiquity, and more accurate circumstances of finding them were not recorded (O. Keyserlingk‘ s collection of stone axes), however, some others were recorded in greater detail (Alfred von Behr‘s finds from Škilinpamūšis barrow cemetery and other). However, in some cases, that is the only information on some of the objects or unique finds in them: Adakavas, Laukžemė, Lieporai, Moliūnai, Škilinpamūšis, Viekšniai (Kaunas Province), and Vecsaules Čapāni, Jaunsvirlaukas Migāļas (Courland Province), etc. |
