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Project RED’s field activities in 2016: geophysical and filed surveys
Goranka Lipovac Vrkljan
orcid.org/0000-0002-0613-729X
; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Ana Konestra
orcid.org/0000-0002-7726-6515
; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Mato Ilkić
orcid.org/0000-0001-6748-639X
; University of Zadar, Department of Archaeology, Zadar, Croatia
Fabian Welc
; Institute of Archaeology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw (UKSW), Warsaw, Poland
Radosław Mieszkowski
; Instytut Hydrogeologii i Geologii Inżynierskiej, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Abstract
Within the project RED – Roman Economy in Dalmatia: production, distribution and demand in the light of pottery workshops (Croatian Science Foundation, IP-11-2013-3973), a series of field surveys and geophysical prospections has been carried out in 2016. The goal of the surveys, carried out on the islands of Krk and Rab, and in Plemići bay (općina Ražanac), was to review potential indicators of pottery and ceramics production, and to retrieve samples of products and raw materials for further analysis. On the island of Krk two potential sites were surveyed (Sv. Maritin – Porat, Sv. Petar – Soline); while in Soline bay pottery production has been confirmed by very evident production wasters, in sv. Martin bay the evidence is still inconclusive. At Plemići bay, on the other hand, the presence of ancient pottery production has been already confirmed, so our main task was sample collection.
Geophysical prospections, carried out in collaboration with the University of Warsaw and Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University (Warsaw) in Podšilo bay at Lopar (island of Rab), were targeted at better understanding the location of the formerly excavated kiln within a wider settlement pattern identified in the bay's hinterland. Result show that in three of the five surveyed zones on Beli grad and Podkućine sites, remains of (ancient) architecture are visible at the depth of around 50 cm. This multidisciplinary approach to pottery and ceramics production aims at identifying the typologies of settings within which pottery production developed on the eastern Adriatic coast.
Keywords
geophysical prospections; magnetometry; pottery workshop; Rab island; rural settlement
Hrčak ID:
189498
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Publication date:
21.11.2017.
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