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CURRENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN CROATIA
Site name:
Hermanov vinograd
Position:
Filipovica
Place/municipality:
Osijek, Osijek-Baranja County
Head of excavations:
Jacqueline Balen, PhD,
and Dragana Rajković
Institution:
Center for Prehistoric Research
Excavation period:
18 th – 30 th July, 2017
Type of excavation:
test trench excavation
Total excavated area:
50 m 2
Chronological and cultural
attribution of the site:
Neolithic, Sopot culture
THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF
HERMANOV VINOGRAD (HERMAN’S VINEYARD)
01
The archaeological site of Hermanov vinograd (Herman’s Vineyard) is located
in Filipovica, the south-western suburb of Osijek, on a low, circular hill covering
a surface of 12,108 m 2 . It is surrounded by family houses, fields and gardens.
The construction of a railway line to Đakovo in the late 19 th century destroyed
the eastern part of the site, while in 1974 the construction of the southern
Osijek bypass destroyed its southern part. A vineyard was located on the hill
in the 19 th and early 20 th century. During tillage, different prehistoric objects
were regularly found, some of them finding their way to the Museum of the
Royal City of Osijek. Professor Vjekoslav Celestin, the Museum’s curator at the
time, became interested in this and started an excavation at a part of the site
in the spring of 1897. It was the first prehistoric site excavation in Slavonia.
Celestin’s excavation covered the surface of 794 m 2 , but the position in which
it was conducted is not known today.
In 1998, during the construction of a sewer main of the city’s sewerage, the
next archaeological excavation was conducted in Hermanov vinograd. The curator
of the Museum of Slavonia, Jasna Šimić, PhD, conducted a rescue excavation
along the sewer route, covering a surface area of 638 m 2 . The excavation
encompassed the edge of the settlement. No dwellings were found, but only
a few waste pits and hearths.
Rescue excavations were also conducted in 2007 and 2011 by the employees
of the Museum of Slavonia.
In 2013, a rescue excavation was conducted during the construction of the
southern section of the state road, D2, on the southern bypass around the
town of Osijek. The excavated area is located south of today’s bypass, and it
was 3200 m 2 in surface. The excavation was conducted by a private archaeological
company Kaducej d.o.o. In 2016, a test trench excavation was conducted
on one of the hills located south of the site’s centre. This was done by the
Centre for Prehistoric Research, supervised by Jacqueline Balen, PhD and Dragana
Rajković. A 50 m 2 trench (5x10 metres, NW-SE direction) was excavated,
located on the highest point, on the western edge of the arable land). Following
the excavation and documentation, the trench was restored to its original
state, that is, it was refilled in with soil.
The excavations established the find to be single-layered site (SU 1 – surface
layer, SU 2 – the Sopot culture layer, in which all structures were buried, SU
49 – the sterile layer). SU 2 is, in fact, assumed to have been a pre-sterile phase,
that is, the walking surface of the inhabitants of the Sopot culture because
there were almost no finds in it. Almost all structures were dug into SU 2.
Smaller buried structures, such as pillars and channels, were mainly found,
but a larger buried structure (SU 19/20) stands out. It is most probably a dugout
working area, which seems to have been covered, as holes from pillars
and smaller stakes were discovered. The structure has been partially excavated,
because it is positioned underneath the western profile, and it consists of
two pits (a so called “multicelled” pit). A large number of bone and stone tools
were found in the structure, as was a hearth. Obsidian and spondylus jewellery
were also discovered, which completely corresponds to the standard and
usual repertoire of the Sopot culture.