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Field Survey of the Tribanj-Krušćica-Gradina St. Trojica Area
Asja Tonc
orcid.org/0000-0001-9067-4639
; Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Gradina St. Trojica is located near the village of Šibuljina, several kilometres west from Starigrad in the Zadar County. Although it has been identified as a prehistoric Liburnian hill-fort, and a Byzantine castrum at the foot of the hill-fort, the site has never been excavated. Therefore the chronological and topographical data were derived only from field surveys and chance finds, which show that the settlement – situated on an extraordinarily well protected and predominant point – lived intensively even during the last phase of the Liburnian culture (2nd–1st BC). In a field survey conducted in April 2009 the status of the terrain was checked, considering that the site is endangered as a consequence of illegal road construction. At the same time, potential necropolis locations were identified, and locations for trial-trenching on the hill-fort were determined, which would bring valuable data about the hill-fort itself, but also about the local Liburnian community at the time of Roman conquest and establishment of power.
Keywords
Starigrad; Gradina St. Trojica; prehistory; last phase of the Liburnian culture; Byzantine castrum
Hrčak ID:
65274
URI
Publication date:
3.3.2011.
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