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Suhopolje – Kliškovac. Results of excavations in 2007
Željko Tomičić
orcid.org/0000-0002-6780-1887
; Institute of archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Kristina Jelinčić
orcid.org/0000-0002-1236-734X
; Institute of archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Mirela Pavličić
; Institute of archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Gordana Mahović
; Institute of archaeology, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
From 16 to 31 August 2007, systematic archaeological excavations were conducted at the Suhopolje-Kliškovac site, which was the third year of excavation of this site, part of a research project of the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports entitled “Medieval Archaeological Heritage of Croatia (15th-16th Centuries)”, headed by Professor Željko Tomičić, Ph.D. Financing of this year’s excavation was provided by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, the Ministry of Culture, the Foundation of the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Suhopolje Municipality.
Excavation continued in the trial trench opened in 2006, in which researchers found a medieval cemetery from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and architecture which is currently presumed to be a church. East of this trial trench, a new one was opened at a location where the architecture and cemetery are expected to continue.
Excavations confirmed this hypothesis, and another wall was found, thus forming a small rectangular room. Another room was observed to the east of this room, which, however, was destroyed during construction of railway tracks in the nineteenth century. Inside and outside the building, 15 graves were explored, some of which are older than the building. New backfills of the graves were defined and they will be explored next year.
Several fragments of medieval pottery from the end of the thirteenth and first half of the fourteenth century, forged iron nails, a bronze Gothic buckle, a medieval iron arrowhead with a tang for fastening, medieval silver coins and an iron key were found in the layers above the graves and in the negative of the newly discovered wall.
An unusually large quantity of pottery from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in the cemetery itself indicates that the settlement which formed a whole with the cemetery was in its immediate vicinity. This is confirmed by the results of field survey, wherein a large quantity of pottery, and house daub on the ground signifying the remains of dwellings were found in the plough-fields east of the cemetery.
Precisely when this site began to be used as a cemetery is still not known, because under the oldest graves new backfills were defined which remain to be explored. Likewise, the settlement is only discussed on the basis of surface finds. Research into this site will continue so as to clarify the picture of the early history of Suhopolje, the settlement and the cemetery.
Keywords
Middle Ages; Bijelo brdo; architecture; church; cemetery; Suhopolje; Kliškovac; settlement
Hrčak ID:
34046
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Publication date:
19.3.2009.
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