Original scientific paper

A Reconstruction of a House from the Early Mediaeval Settlement of Virovitica-Kiškorija jug

Tajana Sekelj Ivančan orcid.org/0000-0001-5992-8434 ; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Tatjana Tkalčec ; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The state of research on early mediaeval rural areas in continental Croatia, as well as elsewhere in Croatia, is only in the incipient stage. This horizon is poorly preserved and largely destroyed by modern intensive farming practices. Recent large-scale salvage investigations on motorway routes greatly contributed to the knowledge about the form of early mediaeval houses. These investigations corroborated the statement about the poor preservation of the early mediaeval horizon in northern Croatia – only a couple of structures were sufficiently preserved to allow a reconstruction of the method of their construction.
In this paper we put forward a reconstruction of an early mediaeval house from the Kiškorija jug site near Virovitica. The structure belongs to the type of semi-sunken single-room houses with two supporting posts and a clay stove of circular or oval plan in a corner. It is dated to the period between the end of the 8th and the end of the 9th century.

Keywords

Virovitica; single-room house; 8th century; 9th century; reconstruction

Hrčak ID:

82696

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/82696

Publication date:

7.6.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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