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A Brief Review of Results of Archaeological Researches of the Birth of Mary in Gradac near Drniš and the Adjacent Graveyard
Mate Zekan
; Muzej hrvatskih arheoloških spomenika HR -Split 21 000
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The protective archaeological researches were undertaken in two campaigns (1996 and 1997) because of the Serbian blowing up of the church of Birth of Mary. The research results confirmed previous assumptions on extraordinary importance of this locality, and new finds strengthened and provided them with new information.
There is found semicircular apse of the Old-Croatian church, and later rectangular apse of a larger church under which floor there are multiple graves. Their building in the 1f3!h century destroyed remaining walls of the Old-Croatian church. At dismantling of the graves, used until the beginning of the 19h century, in their walls there were found several fragments decorated with interlaced ornaments. In graves along the church walls and in the area between two rectangular apses, there were found single-bead earrings, chain link.s, rings from a longer medieval period.
Researches of two graves covered with monolith stone slabs, found at digging the pit for a new family grave, there were found diadem made of silver gilded applications, a pair . of three-bead earrings and a ring.
Archaeological researches established that the oldest church, dedicated to St. Peter, from which origin interlaced decorative sculpture, stood most probably till the Romanesque period, when its gate was decorated with very decorative early-Romanesque door lintel and posts, and throughout the middle ages, till as long as the 13th century, when it was rebuilt in 1771. In 1861, the church was added sacristy at its northern side, and the said door frame was built high in the church wall. In 1897 the church was repaired, the old apse was demolished and the new, larger one, was built.
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Hrčak ID:
92735
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Datum izdavanja:
28.9.2000.
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