The oldest traces of human presence in the area of Stare Juchy date back to the late Palaeolithic period (ca. 14 thousand years ago). One of the Stone Age hunter-gatherer sites was known from a large island on Lake Jędzelewo. The three flint relics in 1916 went to a museum in what was then Lec/Lötzen (today’s Gizycko), and were later transferred to the Prussia Museum in Königsberg/Königsberg (Kaliningrad). Particularly noteworthy is a small bone harpoon with a burr, which was found in the early 1930s during the dredging of the Gawlik River (at the level of Nowe Juch). It was dated to the Stone Age and published in the first archaeological monograph of East Prussia.
Finds of stone axes and hatchets from the Neolithic period (younger Stone Age) were known from the area of Stare Juchy.
The area is particularly famous for the surface deposits discovered in the 19th century in the vicinity of Skomack Wielki (Lake Orzyskie, Czarne and Tulewo) and Szczecinów (Lake Szostak). These were relics of artificial islands, settled in the early Iron Age (about 2500 years ago). Barrows – stone and earth tombs came from the same period. They were known, among others, from Gorło, Grabnik, Kaltek, Skomack Wielki and Stare Juchy.
Other archaeological sites have been mentioned in Orzechowo and Skomack Wielki (burial cemeteries from the Roman influence period), Gorłówek, Ostrów, Rogale and Stare Juchy (settlements).
The discovery of a treasure trove of two hundred silver coins from the years 1658-1675 in the cellar of the Yuzhno merchant Karl Geydan was quite a sensation some of which were donated to the museum in Lec in 1916.
Interestingly, a member of the “Prussia” Society of Antiquity Lovers in Königsberg was pastor Johann Gawlick (*1832, +1916), who was parish priest in Jüsen from 1877 to 1897. Perhaps it was thanks to him that the reconstruction of the early Iron Age stone barrow box was made. It was placed on a small hill above the river, opposite the parsonage, in the place where there is now a model of a bee from the insect park.