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To the west of the village of Mikowice (which lies 40 krn southeast of Wrocław) inside a large wooded tract on an extensive kame plateau a dozen or so barrow fields were discovered (FIGURE 1) in the 1920s-30s. The two largest burial grounds (the ‘western’ and ‘eastern’ fields) comprise some 3 to 4 score tumuli (FIGURE 2) .The ‘western’ burial ground has for many years attracted the attention of archaeologists. Following a meticulous recording and preparation of a contour plan of the site between 1926 and 1934 (Hellmich 1938: 226–28), 11 features were excavated under the supervision of L.F. Zotz, G. Raschke, K. Tackenberg and K. Petersen of Breslau (modern Wroclaw) (Zotz 1930: 81–4; 1934: 108–12). The excavations had a rescue character as intensive extraction in adjacent sand pits was seriously damaging the cemetery, having reduced the surviving number of barrows to 24.

The article describes two bronze artefacts discovered without context in the Lublin region. The first one is a fragment of a knife blade found in Kornie. This item can be associated with the onset of the Lusatian culture. The second artefact, the cheekpiece of the Kamyševach type, probably comes from the Carpathian Basin from the Thraco-Cimmerian environment in the late Bronze Age.

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The hoard found in 2003 during archaeological excavations in Perespa in the Tomaszów Lubelski district, Lublin voivodeship, despite its small size (46 coins), and thanks to its assured completeness, gives the opportunity to study the structure of the rural Polish monetary market in the middle of the 16th century, the role of coins from individual mints and foreign coinage. The location and context of the hoard also provide an opportunity to relate it to the results of research on the monetization of villages and the role of cash rents in the transformations of the rural economy in the early modern era. A high technical level coin counterfeit from the Perespa hoard deserves A separate reflection as it suggests that it was the product of an official mint.