country. Poland
year of inscription. 2019
criteria. Cultural
This WHS is located in the voivodeship (province) of Swietokrzyskie. It comprises four mining sites that date back from the Neolithic Age to the Early Bronze Age, a period from 3900BCE to 1600BCE. Underground structures for extracting stripped flint, used mainly for axe-making, and workshops for processing the flints bear evidence of a comprehensive flint production site, whose output was distributed as far as 650km away.
The four component sites are:
- The principal mining site, Krzemionki Opatowskie Mining Field
- Two smaller mining fields: Borownia and Korycizna
- Gawroniec prehistoric miners’ permanent settlement and site for finishing and polishing the flint axes
