Abstract
The submitted text deals with the publication of prehistoric and early historic artefacts recovered during a me -t al detector survey on the grounds of the Lipany battlefield (the period of the Hussite wars). Apart froma rtefacts which can be directly related to this historical event, other objects were found, too.
These can be datedb ack to the Paleolithic, the Bronze Age, the La Tène period, the Roman period, the Migration period, and theE arly Middle Ages. It is especially the finds of fibulae and coins dating from the Late Roman and Migration pe-r iods which enable us to date human activities in these periods relatively precisely.
So far, it is possible toa ssume cautiously that these are remains of a 4thcentury settlement. A small Thuringian fibula then indicatest hat these activities might have continued until the late 5thcentury AD and it also complements the relativelyl ow number of such fibulae in Bohemia.
Although the number of recovered finds is not high, their typo-chrono-l ogical analysis can be confronted with the results of a fieldwalking project carried out in the 1980s. We alsot ried to locate an Únětice culture cemetery, which had been destroyed in the past, and a necropolis dating fromt he Early Middle Ages, through the study of archival sources.
With regard to the continuation of the project, more finds are to be expected in the future.