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Continued archaeological investigations and conservation at the Stancija Blek site (Tar) in 2012
Bartul Šiljeg
orcid.org/0000-0003-2286-7775
; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Vladimir Kovačić
; Poreč Local History Museum, Poreč, Croatia
Ana Konestra
orcid.org/0000-0002-7726-6515
; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The investigations at the Stancija Blek site near Tar continued in 2012 with a new season of archaeological and conservation works, focusing on Room 8, in which a number of walls, reconstructions and burnt layers were investigated in the previous year, as well as the western part of the perimeter wall of the cistern.
The removal of the burnt layers allowed us to define the situation with greater clarity. The material from the burnt layers points to late antiquity. Another find worthy of mention is the abundance of metal slag. We have defined the relationship of these layers with the walls above, as well as the relationship of individual walls and the cistern in the southern part of P 8. The works within the cistern allowed us to excavate the upper portion of the wall aligned E-W, and partly N-S. In addition to this, a recent walled structure SU 093 was discovered.
The excavations have shed clearer light on the chronological sequence in P 8 as regards the late antiquity and the Middle Ages. However, the transitional phase from antiquity into late antiquity still escapes clear definition.
Keywords
Stancija Blek; Tar; Poreč; antiquity; late antiquity; Middle Ages; cistern; ceramics
Hrčak ID:
112047
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Publication date:
13.12.2013.
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