Mikulčice-Valy is an archaeological site and a museum with remains of a significant Slavic gord from the times of the Great Moravian Empire.

The site is located in Mikulčice in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic, near the river Morava, which forms the Czech-Slovak boundary.

The Archaeopark is a branch of the Masaryk Museum in Hodonín[1] and an archaeological research institute of Czech Academy of Science in Brno is also on the site.

[5] The excavations commenced in 1954, when Josef Poulík[6] discovered the 2nd church in the curve of the rampart close to the western entrance of the acropolis.

It contained a sword, an axe, a dagger with decorated hilt, a bucket, belt fittings and a golden button.

[11] There was some evidence of settlement that pre-dated the Great Moravian Empire including a hoard of clay animal figurines.

A number of iron styli for writing on wax tablet were discovered, suggesting that the building would have been used for administrative purposes.

821) of a six-year-old child with a cast bronze Avar horse head fitting, pottery vessels, a bucket and a bell.

Adjacent to the church, which was next to a roadway leading to a gateway in the rampart, was a metalworking workshop producing high quality goods.

The graves of surrounding cemetery were relatively poorly furnished, but in the nave of the church was found a large hoard ironwork, including axes, ploughshares sickles and iron ingots.

Finds from river-bed included another longboat, an archery bow, identified as being made from English yew, wicker fish-traps, ladles, spoons, buckets and vats.

In the outer bailey there were numerous wooden dwellings and a number of these building had rich graves cut through their floors.

Below this level on the bedrock there was an ashy layer with Avar cast metalwork, suggesting an 8th-century settlement that predated the Great Moravian Empire.

Also the Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences started rescue excavations in the vicinity of Mikulčice.

[20] A degree of social stratigraphy can be distinguished in the [clarification needed] with the élite warrior burials who are accompanied by their swords and the horse-men who are equipped with gilded bronze spurs and battle axes.

Very typical of Great Moravian metalworking is the hollow globular metal buttons or gombik that were used, often in pairs, to hold a cloak or garment around the neck, They occur with both male and female burials and were almost certainly made in local workshops.