Chrobry Fortified Village

The Chrobry Gord is an archaeological earthwork near Szprotawa in Lower Silesia, Poland, named after the country's first crowned ruler Boleslaw I the Brave. One of the largest earthworks of its kind in Poland, it comprises a polygonal plateau of 4 hectares raised 6 metres above its surroundings in the old Bobr river valley, within the Park Slowianski nature reserve. The date of the original structure remains unknown, though German historian August Gloger (1927) described it as dating from the era when these lands were Polish. Archaeological research was conducted under the patronage of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2008-2009, and since 2007 the site has been protected as a designated historical monument.