Preliminary communication
Ilok, Castle of the Dukes of Ilok, 2005 Excavation Results
Željko Tomičić
Marko Dizdar
Bartul Šiljeg
Hrvoje Kalafatić
Kristina Jelinčić
orcid.org/0000-0002-1236-734X
Abstract
The excavations conducted in 2005 are a follow-up of systematic archaeological excavations that began in 2001. It was determined that the supporting piers in the northern wall cannot be fully defined at this stage of excavations. Large parts of the unearthed piers broke off and were found beneath the pier base slightly moved. The wall discovered along with the baroque cellar in 2001 in the north-eastern corner of the Palace is oriented toward the west, slightly declining to the north, up to the furthest western pier on the northern wall. In the investigated area, a modern sewage system was unearthed, cut through the baroque wall. Next to the eastern pier in the northern wing a pit was discovered containing the remains of two rococo tiled stoves. The remains show that they were decorated with reliefs of festoons and medallions. The stratigraphy of the excavations from 2002 and 2003 was confirmed in the central hall of the northern wing. After recent layers, a layer of rubble was found, which resulted from the demolition of the fortification at the end of the seventeenth century. Below it there was a burned layer with smaller rubble that emerged after conquest by the Ottomans and destruction of the Palace in the seventeenth century. The layer was rich with iron artefacts (locks, nails, projectiles). With a metal detector, several lead and iron projectiles were found along with two coins (one of them from the sixteenth century) and a partly preserved coin sample. Among the moveable goods ceramic fragments were found from all periods: a balsamarium, a lucerne, medieval spears, bone fragments painted gold, bolts (veretons), Gothic and modern historical stove-tiles, coins (from the fourteenth century), pipes, stone, iron and lead projectiles.
Keywords
Ilok; Dukes of Ilok; Late Middle Ages, Gothic period; Antiquity; Prehistory
Hrčak ID:
9117
URI
Publication date:
11.11.2006.
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