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Hvar, St. Clement island, Soline Bay, archaeological investigations in 2012
Marina Ugarković
; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivančica Schrunk
orcid.org/0000-0001-7145-9722
; University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Vlasta Begović
; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Marinko Petrić
; Hvar Heritage Museum, Hvar, Croatia
Tina Neuhauser
; ArchaeoAir, Ligist, Austria
Abstract
In June of 2012, the investigations of the Roman villa located in Soline Bay on the island of St. Clement (Sv. Klement near Hvar) continued in their six season. Researchers from four institutions (Hvar Heritage Museum, Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, Institute of Archaeology at the University of Graz) collaborated on the project, with a number of student and volunteer participants. Three probes on parcel 4319 were excavated to the bedrock: 7, 8 and 10. Probe 7 was an expansion of Probe 6 from 2011, where stratigraphic units 700-731 were documented. The wall (SU 717) of E-W direction, presumed in the magnetometric survey from 2010 was now archaeologically documented, along with its original floor (SU 719, 721), both of which are connected with the Late Roman villa. Another mortar floor with two foundations in chipped stones (SU 712, 713, 715) was documented above, testifying to a later reconstruction of the villa, of a so far undetermined date. Probe 8 was an expansion of Probe 4 from 2011, where stratigraphic units 800-825 were documented. The continuation of the N-S wall (SU 812) was documented in its foundations, that with the partially recovered parallel wall on the west side of the trench (SU 819) enclosed the Late Roman room within the villa. The continuation (from trench 4 excavated in 2011) of the thick Roman waterproof mortar floor (SU 817) abutting the wall foundation (SU 818) was documented in its overall dimensions. On the south side of the trench SU 815 and SU 816, there are probably the remains of a small grave. Archaeological evidence for the earlier Roman walls, indicated by the magnetometry results were not documented. The area of Novak‘s trench from the 1950s was carefully cleaned, and two small probes were opened on the N (9) and S (10) edges of it. Probe 9 yielded architectural remains continuing in the S, E, and W direction. A bronze Roman coin was documented within the remains of the wall. Probe 10 documented stratigraphic units from 1000-1006. A floor (SU 1001), made of ceramic tiles dim. 35 x 35 cm, on the mortar foundation (SU 1002), and a thin burned layer was documented. The Soline bay was subjected to the underwater survey for the purpose of beginning the documentation and protection of the underwater architectural and material findings.
Keywords
Soline; island of St. Clement; Late Roman villa; architecture; Hellenistic-Roman-Late Roman pottery; salt works; underwater survey
Hrčak ID:
112036
URI
Publication date:
13.12.2013.
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