File:02023 Friedefeld-type bowl , Szczecin around 150 AD — 375 AD.jpg

English: MNS/A/22192 The bowl has vertical sidewalls covered with dense, oblique grooves. Underneath the mouth, there is a rib running around the vessel. The mouth is tilted outwards, the bottom is flat, and the bowl is without a foot. Archaeological sources describe this type of vessel as the Friedefeld type. Such bowls were manufactured in workshops in the Rhine region. They were transported to the Baltic Sea by a seaway to the Danish islands in particular, from where they were further distributed to the Lower Oder and Vistula basin. This phenomenon, called “the Danish flood” of Roman imported goods, provided “competition” for the Amber Road. The bronze bowl found in the Western Pomerania region is related to the population of the Gustow group and is dated to the second half of the 2nd century. The Gustow group is one of many regional groups that formed under the influence of other dominant cultures, namely the Wielbark culture (more often related to the Goths) and German cultures from the Elbe region.