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Continuation of the Archaeological Research on the Position of Prečno pole I in Torčec near Koprivnica
Tajana Sekelj Ivančan
Sažetak
The archaeological site of Torčec - Prečno Pole 1 is positioned on the southern side of a large dried-up meander of the river Drava, stretching in the north of the village Torčec in the county of Koprivničko-križevačka (Fig. 1.). This year’s excavations followed the boundaries of the acres. Their width amounted to 5 m and the length to 53 m, with the total sum of 265 m2 of investigated area.
In the conducted archaeological excavations, a total of 8 artifacts was recorded (Fig. 2.), some of which represent object remains. One of them, the most preserved, was of a quadratic form, with a hearth in its southwestern part (Fig. 3.). Apart from this house, two round fire sites were discovered, which were positioned outdoors, near one of the less preserved objects, the remains of which were recorded in the thickness of merely a few centimetres. An extension of a trench, created during World War II and recorded in the research of 2005, was also registered. All burials occur immediately below the ploughed layer, in the mixed layer consisting of ploughed clay and yellowish sand, i.e. where it is missing, in the yellow sand layer. The objects are extremely badly preserved and represent the last remains of dwellings, some of which are preserved in the thickness of merely a couple of centimetres.
Most frequent movable finds were fragments of ceramic, crudely manufactured pots, with slightly rounded or cut edges of a simple profiling. The pots are ornamented by dense combshaped waves or a series of vertical, also comb-shaped lines, at the shoulder and belly of the pot, but also at the edges. Apart from the ceramic fragments, several smaller iron objects and one glass perl were found. By analogies to the mentioned characteristics of the collected ceramics, it may be concluded that the inhabitants of the rural settlement on Prečno Pole I in Torčec were resident on this spot during the earliest periods of the Middle Ages, between the first half of the 7th and the first half of the 10th century.
A more precise dating, within the mentioned time frame, of the period people were resident in this settlement shall only be possible after the analyses and the expert and scientific processings of the movable archaeological finds have been carried out.
Ključne riječi
Torčec-Prečno Pole I; archaeological research; settlement; Early Middle Ages
Hrčak ID:
13234
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Datum izdavanja:
5.6.2007.
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