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CURRENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN CROATIA
Site name:
Starigrad Paklenica
Position:
Sv. Petar (St. Peter)
Place/Municipality:
Starigrad Paklenica
Head of excavation:
Radomir Jurić
Institution:
Archaeological Museum in Zadar
Excavation period:
1999 – 2008
Type of excavation:
systematic
Total excavated area:
Approximately 600 m 2
Chronological and cultural attribution
of the site:
The Middle Ages (the Early Middle
Ages, the Late Middle Ages),
the Modern Ages
EXCAVATIONS OF THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH OF ST. PETER
AND THE GRAVEYARD AROUND IT IN STARIGRAD PAKLENICA
Systematic archaeological excavations lasted in and around the Church of
St. Peter from 1999 to 2008, with minor interruptions. A more comprehensive
conservation work on that sacral structure was preceded by the excavation
led by the Archaeological Museum in Zadar. The conservation works started
at the end of 2007 and lasted until 2012, under the expert supervision of the
Directorate for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Conservation Department
in Zadar.
The Church of St. Peter is located in front of the entrance into Velika Paklenica
canyon and it has at least two construction phases. Recent excavation
has established early medieval and late medieval construction phases of the
church, to which a church-tower was added, and later the buttresses along
the southern and the northern walls. The length of the older church is 8 meters,
and the width is 5 meters. The total length, with later additional structure
(the apse) is 13 meters.
Numerous graves have been found in and around the church. A total of 215
graves were excavated. They date from the Middle Ages to the Modern Ages.
One or several deceased were buried directly into the ground, in wooden caskets
or graves with grave architecture. The graves were covered with thin,
thick or multiple monoliths. Multiple brick tombs, which held several deceased,
were also excavated. A few dozen items were found in the graves,
among which jewellery prevailed. The jewellery mostly consisted of earrings
and rings, which were present in a wide variety of types and choices.
The three strawberry-like earrings which date back to the Late Middle Ages
(14 th ) century are outstandingly beautiful. Several late medieval coins were
found both inside and outside of the graves. Excavated applications, which
belonged to diadems or to Gothic hats, should certainly be mentioned, as
well as several pottery fragments and some glass.
Human skeletons have been analysed at the Department of Archaeology of
the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Zagreb.
Translated by Mihael Wagner