Ostalo
Archaeological Excavations in Ilok in 2008 Ilok site – Castle of the Dukes of Ilok and St. Peter the Apostle Church
Željko Tomičić
orcid.org/0000-0002-6780-1887
; Institut za arheologiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Kristina Jelinčić
orcid.org/0000-0002-1236-734X
; Institut za arheologiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Kristina Turkalj
; Institut za arheologiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Gordana Mahović
; Institut za arheologiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
In June and July 2008, the last archaeological excavation project was conducted in Ilok, at the Castle of the Dukes of Ilok and the Church of St. Peter the Apostle sites, which is part of the project “Research, Reconstruction and Revitalisation of the Cultural Heritage of Ilok-Vukovar-Vučedol”, supported by the Croatian Government and the European Development Bank. Research was conducted in line with the clearly defined guidelines of the Ministry of Culture, and its objective was to define single noteworthy elements. One of these was the considerable defensive entry structure on the eastern façade of the Odescalchi Palace, and another was the unexamined part of the Gothic Church of St. Peter the Apostle that could be excavated given the complex communal infrastructure. As for the church, it was necessary to find out whether there were pieces of architecture at two locations near the north façade of the Primary School, lying south of the fifteenth century Church of St. Peter the Apostle. The excavations at the site Castle of the Dukes of Ilok focussed on the area from the 2007 excavation line eastward over a length of 19.06 m and from the outbuilding toward the southern over a length of 15.51 m. The objective of the excavation was to ascertain where the continuation of the fortified entrance complex of the Castle of the Dukes of Ilok was in the ground-plan. The walls of the entrance building were identified below a layer of shattered rubble covering a length of 14.62 m. They were damaged when outbuildings were constructed in the nineteenth century, and by recent installations. The total length of the entrance complex is 22.97 m, and the width 11.13 m. From historical sources, we learned that the outbuildings were burned down in the mid-twentieth century, so that their walls remained preserved only up to a height of two rows of bricks. Excavations at the site of the Church of St. Peter the Apostle in 2008 were conducted at four locations. In the excavations of 2008, the southern part of the church ground-plan was defined at two spots with two trial-trenches placed on the northern side of the road. This enabled the excavation of the southern part of the apses with a support pillar, and the southern part of the bell-tower with a support pillar at the front of the church. Along with the bell-tower that was formerly in the middle of the church’s west façade, an extension of the wall of the church’s west façade was uncovered, which was otherwise constructed simultaneously with the bell-tower. Two trenches excavated along the northern façade of the primary school building south of the church in order to plan the position of all installations on the site did not reveal any pieces of architecture, but the existence of archaeological layers was ascertained. At the end of the excavations, all trenches were covered by geotextile and then with sand and earth.
Ključne riječi
Ilok; Castle of the Dukes of Ilok; Middle Ages; Odescalchi; St. Peter the Apostle
Hrčak ID:
50376
URI
Datum izdavanja:
21.12.2009.
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