An iron axe head from historical times discovered in Jaroszowice (Wadowice district)

In the 1970s, an iron axe head was discovered on the banks of the Skawa River in Jaroszowice (Wadowice district). This richly decorated find wa s brought years later by the finder’s son to the Sucha Beskidzka Municipal Museum. According to M. Głosek’s typology, the find can be classified as type VIII and dated in a broad time frame of the late medieval and the early post-medieval period.