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Trial Excavation of the Torčec-Međuriče Site Near Koprivnica in 2007
Saša Kovačević
orcid.org/0000-0002-7197-5994
; Institut za arheologiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
In September 2007 a team from the Institute of Archaeology organized and conducted trial-trenching on the Torčec-Međuriče site in Podravina, north-east of Koprivnica. The site itself is 1500 m northwest from the centre of Torčec, west of the road that leads from Torčec to Đelekovec, in the centre of lowlands well permeated by water currents. According to the concentration of the ploughed-up material – the information we received from amateur archaeologists, the Zvijerac brothers – we decided to place two trial trenches in the east-west direction, across the entire width of the chosen fields. The trenches had approximately the same dimensions. The trench 1/2007 (S-1) was 16 m long and approximately 4 m wide, while the trench further to the north was 15 m long and 5 m wide. One of the most important results of this year’s explorations in Torčec is the confirmation that in the Međuriče region there exists, albeit heavily damaged by intensive agriculture, a settlement from the Early Iron Age (pillar holes, pits, characteristic pottery of the developed phase of the Early Iron Age), and it seems from the Middle Ages as well (skeleton in a crouched position?). We managed to collect the samples, which was of utmost importance, and a characteristic archaeological material which in the analysis will join the previously collected surface finds. At this stage we cannot say much about the layout of the settlement itself, as the trialtrenching was limited in scope and duration, and it was not our primary aim to determine the infrastructure of the settlement. However, it can be concluded from a preliminary inspection of the archaeological material that the Torčec site on the Međuriče position clearly belongs to the group of Early Iron Age settlements in Podravina, the other such settlements being Farkašić “P”, Sigetec, Sv. Petar Ludbreški, Zbelava and many others (Marković 1982; Vinski-Gasparini 1987; Šimek 1982; Kovačević 2007b, Registar 1997).
Ključne riječi
settlement; Early Iron Age; Torčec; Podravina; trial excavation 2007
Hrčak ID:
34050
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Datum izdavanja:
19.3.2009.
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