Archaeologia Adriatica, Vol. 1 No. 1, 2007.
Original scientific paper
New Contributions to the Archaeological Topography of the Dugopolje Region
Igor Borzić
; University of Zadar, Department of Archaeology
Ivana Jadrić
; University of Zadar, Department of Archaeology
Abstract
This article presents the results of archaeological excavations at the site Dugopolje – Vučipolje, along the course of the Zagreb-Dubrovnik highway. Excavation was carried out by the Department of Archaeology of the University of Zadar from February to May 2005. Minor excavations had already been performed at this site in 1980, with the discovery of a walled grave vault from the period of late Antiquity lined with 7 Roman stelae dated to the early Imperial period. The new excavations were intended to uncover a broader context for this grave vault, and were divided into three sectors. All three sectors deserve further excavation, as it will be possible to gain insight into the development of a rural community located along the route of the main roads leading from Salona, the main city of the province of Dalmatia, towards the interior. This fact, along with highly suitable natural conditions for successful agricultural cultivation, offered possibilities of great prosperity to this settlement, for which we now have confirmation that it existed in the period from the 4th – 6th centuries, although an earlier date can also be expected. As the site at which the grave vaults and settlement complex were discovered is called Crkvina ("Church"), traces of early Christian structures can be expected in further investigations.
Keywords
Dugopolje; Roman period; late Antiquity; grave chambers
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28651
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Publication date:
21.10.2007.
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