Klaipėdos universitetas

The purpose of the article is to determine the typological characteristics of decoration of the delmonas of Lithuania Minor and of the national costume pockets of neighbouring nations. This article discusses Klaipėda region delmonas, the pockets of Estonian, Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian costume, and the attachable pockets of noble class’s attire of various nations preserved in museums. The decorations of the pockets were studied to support or refute the influence of the fashion of nobility and of international relations on folk costume decor formation and change. The research allowed to identify the decorating techniques, pattern variation and matching features of the pockets.

The rescue excavations of the Virbaliūnai ancient settlement have unearthed an iron production site of the middle of the first millennium AD. Nine slag-pit type furnace bottoms with the slaggy mass in situ, pieces of iron-smelting slag, potsherds and other finds have been excavated here. An attempt at a metallurgical interpretation of both the furnace structure and the iron smelting process at the site is discussed in this paper. The results of a metallographic examination of crude iron clot as well as the data from chemical analyses of the smelting slags are also presented here.