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THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE OF JADRANOVO
Ranko Starac
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By the late 19th century, museum collections started to acquire the particular objects of antique origin from the area of Jadranovo settlement (originally named Sveti Jakov-Šiljevica). These objects were discovered while land was cultivated near the coast of Havišće peninsula. In the early 20th century, the graves from Early Imperial Roman period at Rtac location, near Lokvišće bay, were thoroughly searched. The 1970s were the time of systematic exploration of undersea between Jadranovo and the nearby coast of Krk. These researches were lead by Radmila Matejčić, while the first accounts on remains of a prehistoric castle on Čelo hill over Lokvišće bay were produced by Aleksandra Faber. During the 1990s, Ranko Starac was intensely engaged on archaeological excavations in Jadranovo. The oldest archaeological findings belong to the late Neolithic and Eneolithic, while the small settlement atop Čelo hill was founded during the early Bronze Age and lasted throughout the second millennium BC. The traces of settlement from the last millennium BC haven't been found. However, since the third century BC, a quay on the coast of Lokvišće bay been used intensely. Here, the researchers found the objects of Greek-Hellenistic origin, along with a bronze clamp originally from subalpine territory and some Numidian coins forged during the reign of king Micipsa. Very probably, the zone of Havišće peninsula was a scene of events connected to the blockade of Krk island during the civil war between the legions of Pompey and Caesar in 49 BC. The strategic importance of Lokvišće bay was recognized in late antiquity, as demonstrated by a fortified residential-military object that was constructed there, whose remains were thoroughly researched and can now be visited. The mentioned late antique edifice was in function during the 6th century, and its ruins occasionally provided the shelter to newly arrived Croatians, who crossed over the sea strait to the island of Krk. By the end of the Middle Age a small edifice was built, above the ruins of late antique complex near Lokvišće bay, to serve as both store and shelter. At the time, this area belonged to the mediaeval municipality of Drivenik. At the very start of the 17th century, during their long war with Croatian Uskoks, Venetian mercenaries demolished the house in Lokvišće bay and killed all the Uskoks they found there. This ended the sequence of events at Havišće peninsula. From the end of the 18th century onwards, settlements around St Jacob Church grew, while the archaeological zone got deforested and transformed into gardens and vineyards, eventually again becoming covered with forest.
Ključne riječi
Jadranovo; Sveti Jakov; hillfort Čelo; Lokvišća cove; Havišće; prehistory; antiquoty; Middle Ages
Hrčak ID:
331355
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Datum izdavanja:
23.9.2010.
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