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Field Survey and Supervision of the State Road D-2 Section – Slatina Bypass Construction
Marko Dizdar
orcid.org/0000-0003-3964-9002
; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
As a result of the construction of part of the State Road D-2 – Slatina Bypass, field survey and archaeological supervision of the route were conducted, where in addition to already known sites, some until recently unknown sites were documented. A 10.2 km long Bypass route breaks away from D-2 (Podravina Highway) west of Sladojevci, passes north of Slatina and joins the Podravina Highway between Slatina and Kozice (Map 1). The bypass passes across lowlands crosscut by a series of streams along which – on mildly elevated positions – all the sites are situated. In a field survey of the bypass route in spring 2003 seven archaeological sites were documented at which archaeological rescue excavations are foreseen. As a result of the new route survey as well as of trial trenches, at three previously documented sites, a surface larger than previously planned was envisaged for excavations (AS 1 Sladojevci–Hruščik/ Brodišće, AS 3 Slatina/Bobovište, AS 7 Slatina–Veliko Polje/Berezine). Of particular importance is the discovery of six new sites, at which archaeological rescue excavations are also going to be conducted, meaning that on the Slatina Bypass route a total of 13 sites have been found. The collected ceramic fragments suggest Late Bronze Age and mediaeval settlements that were located on mild elevations along one of the streams which are abundant in the Slatina region. Rescue excavations at all sites will enable new understanding of settlement density within the Slatina area, located along a significant transport route leading along the Drava River valley and connecting the south-eastern Alpine area with the Danube Region. The excavations of the site’s larger surfaces will also enable collection of data about the infrastructure of settlements from the prehistory, classical antiquity and the Middle Ages periods in the narrower Slatina region that has not been excavated yet, while the collected finds will verify the intensity and chronological sequence of settlement.
Keywords
field survey; Slatina; Podravina; prehistory; classical antiquity; Middle Ages; settlements; cemeteries
Hrčak ID:
65265
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Publication date:
3.3.2011.
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