By the end of the second week of excavation, it may be concluded that the somewhat mysterious school at Pöide mentioned in written sources, which may have been in operation before the Teutonic Order came to power (thus from the late 13th century?) and where young brothers of the Order (also?) studied, may have been one of the buildings of the Pöide hillfort – we have so far found three artefacts interpreted elsewhere as stylus, plus some that may have been in similar use.
A stylus is a stick used to write on a wax tablet, from which the writing can be erased. These could be used for making temporary notes, but also, for example,for learning to write. Who knows?
Later the school would have fallen into ruins and the teachers would have left; the ruins would still have been visible at the time of writing (around 1400 or 15th century?).
There were indeed some massive buildings in the centre of the courtyard, some of which have a foundation of large stones and gravel several centimetres thick. It’s not quite clear where the school mentioned in the written source was exactly, but one possibility is certainly the hillfort of Pöide.
