title: Locating the Theatre of War at the Battle of Grunwald by Metal Detectors
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metadata.value: Ekdahl, Sven Erik
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-06-26T21:16:36Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-06-26T21:16:36Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Ekdahl S. E. Locating the Theatre of War at the Battle of Grunwald by Metal Detectors. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, issue 2, рp. 448–468.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2020.207
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/18362
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article presents some main features of the battlefield archaeology at Grunwald (1410).
  A special attention is devoted to an intriguing question of the acceptance by historians and
  archaeologists of a fallacious theory about the march routes and battlefield deployment of the
  armies created by the famous Prussian historian Johannes Voigt in 1836. The author rejects
  the credibility of the thesis by Voigt and his many modern followers; refers to a contemporary
  source that has remained unknown in scholarship, and offers an alternative interpretation.
  The article reconsiders not only written sources but also archaeological investigations and
  historical maps. The research is based on the use of methods associated with archaeological
  exploration. The presented data are the results of search with metal detectors (and partly GPR)
  in the fields of Grunwald from 2014 to 2019, when 600 hectares of land were explored. It
  turned out that the previous hypotheses by historians and archaeologists about the location of
  the main battlefield east of the road from Stembark to Lodwigowo are not reliable. The main
  battle took place 2 to 3 km further west, namely south and east of the village of Grunwald.
  Of particular interest to Lithuanian and Russian historians are the many military artefacts
  found on both sides of the road from Grunwald to Lodwigowo, where, according to the author’s
  research, the troops of the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Vytautas, faced the left wing of the
  Teutonic Order’s army. In addition, the use of a radar station (Ground Penetration Radar) in
  2016 enabled to suggest a possible location of mass graves.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 65; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Battlefield Archaeology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ground Penetration Radar (GPR)
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Grunwald
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: metal detector
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Tannenberg
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Teutonic Order
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Locating the Theatre of War at the Battle of Grunwald by Metal Detectors
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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