SPRAWOZDANIA ARCHEOLOGICZNE 61, 2009 PL ISSN 0081-3834 Paweł Jarosz (Kraków), Krzysztof Tunia (Kraków), Piotr Włodarczak (Kraków) BURIAL MOUND NO. 2 IN MALżYCE, THE DISTRICT OF KAZIMIERZA WIELKA 1. INTRODUCTION Remains of an extensive barrow cemetery in Malżyce, the Czarnocin commune, district of Kazimierza Wielka, Świętokrzyskie province, marked as Site 30 (Fig. 1), were discovered in 2003 during surface survey carried out by Krzysztof Tunia near the well-known early mediaeval fortiied settlement in Stradów. Site 30 lies on a culmination of the vast eleva- tion in the northern part of the western Małopolska loess upland, approximately 1200 m south-west of the “Mogiła” barrow in Zagaje Stradowskie, the commune of Czarnocin, situated within the same landform, excavated by Jan Gromnicki in the 1960s (1961) and by Barbara Burchard in the 1990s (Burchard 1998; 2006). In 2003, salvage excavations were started on one of seriously damaged burial mounds discovered in Malżyce, where an out- line of the central burial pit was already discernible on the surface. The mound was marked as “barrow No. 1”. A grave of the Funnel Beaker culture (FBC) located within the mound was identiied, as well as ive graves of the Corded Ware culture (CWC) and three graves of the Mierzanowice culture (MC; the irst report: Tunia, Włodarczak, in press). In late au- tumn 2008, the excavations were extended to include two more features, barrows Nos. 2 and 3. The research was inanced from resources granted by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (the Cultural Heritage Programme, Priority 4: Archeological Monument Preservation, Agreement No. 11065/08/FPK/KOBiDZ). The feature marked as barrow No. 3 yielded three graves with FBC stone structures and a fragment of an undeter- mined pillared (possibly megalithic) construction, but no traces of an embankment. Re- sults of research within that section will be presented in a separate report after additional excavations.