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In 2017, the lower fitting of a sword scabbard, discovered some 500 m east of Lake Stęgwica near Gardzień, Iława district, was transferred to the collections of the Ostróda Museum. The artefact is damaged, butonly superficially. Despite the degradation of some parts of the decoration, on the basis of the general shape, thelegible parts and stylistic features, this object can clearly be classified as type Va in the typology of the Lithuanianweapon specialist Vytautas Kazakevičius. The chronology of the artefact spans the 11th–13th centuries. Accordingto the authors, the Gardzień chape should be considered a product of Prussian provenance, or perhaps fromCourland, which is suggested by a find from Siraičiai in Lithuania, with the closest analogous ornamentation. Theplace where the chape was discovered was, during the early Middle Ages, in the zone broadly understood as theSlavic-Baltic border. In this sense, it is possible to connect the context of the discovery to the tripartite division ofPrussian territorial ties: tribal territory (Pomesania), land (Prezla) and the lauks (campus Schinewite). The presence of this artefact in the area of today’s Gardzień can be associated with the frontier character of this region inthe Middle Ages and the resulting militarisation of the population forced to face neighbouring aggression moreoften than usual.

The sword scabbard fitting from Gardzień near Iława. A contribution to arms studies on the Baltic-Slavic border