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Archaeological investigations at Crkvari – St. Lawrence Church in 2012
Tatjana Tkalčec
orcid.org/0000-0003-3963-7706
; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The 2012 investigation was carried out in the area adjacent to the southern portal of the present-day chapel of St. Lawrence in Crkvari, and between the two eastern buttresses of the chapel apse. The excavations revealed a wall that departs due south at the right angle from the southern wall of the three-naved Early Gothic church, pointing to the existence of a separate annex room (Fig. 1). Further 76 graves were excavated, amounting to a total of 555 investigated graves. Four horizons of burials can be distinguished: a Modern period one (the second half of the 16th and the 17th century) with a high proportion of burials of small children; a younger phase of late mediaeval graves of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century; an older phase of late mediaeval graves (13th-14th cent.); early mediaeval graves and graves of the High Middle Ages (11th-13th cent.). Several graves from the oldest of these periods stand out, not only because they contained silver twisted rings and circlets, but also by the size and shape of grave pits (Fig. 2). Another grave deserving special mention belonged to a priest (G 497) from the Modern period, with a preserved textile in the shape of a cross, sewn to a mass vestment (Fig. 3-4). The grave of a woman with a lead bull of Pope Callixtus III (1455-1458) can also be singled out (Fig. 5).
Keywords
archaeological investigations; Crkvari; St. Lawrence Church; mediaeval earthen fortification; Early Middle Ages; Late Middle Ages; Modern period
Hrčak ID:
112026
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Publication date:
13.12.2013.
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