Original scientific paper
PREHISTORIC TRACES OF SALT PRODUCTION IN THE PODVELEBIT LITTORAL
STAŠO FORENBAHER
Abstract
Amongst the numerous archaeological finds which thanks to the relentless work of Prof. Ante Glavičić came into the possession of the Senj City Museum are also several seemingly mysterious items gathered from Iron Age sites near Sveti Juraj and Prizna. They are fragments of rough, spindly items of terracotta with a three-horned ending, about 15 cm long. Glavičić published them in 1969 in the third edition of the Senj Almanac, assuming that they could be items of cultural purposes. It is almost certain that it is in fact to do with parts of specially constructed furnaces which were used for the drying of salty paste. The mentioned material indicates that in many places at the foot of Velebit, in the Late Iron Age, how salt was produced
from seawater by forced evaporation with the use of briquetage.
Keywords
briquetage; Podvelebit Littoral; salt production; Iron Age
Hrčak ID:
129592
URI
Publication date:
31.12.2013.
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