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ous fragments of clay pottery and
fragmented vessels, stone tools, flint
and bone tools, and other artifacts of
either decorative or utilitarian material,
coins.
During the Late Antiquity,
the settlement of Vlashnje known by
the toponomy Gradishta of Vlashnje,
was fortified with constructed
walls, typical characteristic of the
refortification era carried out by
Byzantine emperor Justinian the
Great. Furthermore, the fortified
area included approximately 2 hectares
and most likely was used as an
observation point of the roman road
segment known as the Via Lissus-
Naissus (Lezha-Nis) that bypassed
the Vlashnje settlement.
Diverse fragments of painted
with geometrical lines pottery
have been unearthed, as well as flint
Fig. 4. The view of the terrace setting
of the archaeological site of Vlashnje.
Fig. 5. Map of the site location
Fig 6. Orthophoto of the archaeological
site of Vlashnje
Fig. 7. Pottery fragment, painted with
geometrical lines. (KAI)
Fig. 8. Flint knife. (KAI)
Fig. 9. View’s on few excavated
trenches in Vlashnje.
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