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CURRENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN CROATIA
Site name:
Hrvatska Dubica; Kostrići
Position:
Gradina; Unka
Place/Municipality:
Hrvatska Kostajnica,
Hrvatska Dubica,
Majur Municipality
Head of excavations:
Filip Franković and Sanjin Mihelić
Institution:
Archaeological Museum in Zagreb
Excavation period:
25/04 – 09/05/2017
Type of excavation:
Test archaeological excavation
Total excavated area:
Excavation: 20 m 2 ; systematic field
survey: 1 km 2
Chronological and cultural
attribution of the site:
Prehistory, Middle Ages
HRVATSKA KOSTAJNICA – UNKA;
HRVATSKA DUBICA – GRADINA
TEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS
The Pounje area around Hrvatska Kostajnica and Hrvatska Dubica has been
known as an area extremely rich in tangible cultural heritage ever since the
beginnings of archaeology in Croatia. In addition to the structures from the
Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Ages, which have been preserved to
this day, there is clear evidence of this area being inhabited even in the earlier
periods of human history, that is, in Classical Antiquity and prehistory. However,
the knowledge of archaeological topography of this area has so far been
the result of accidental and sporadic finds, rather than systematic excavations.
The goal of the excavations in the areas of Hrvatska Kostajnica and Hrvatska
Dubica was to identify the biggest possible number of archaeological sites,
as well as to examine their potential for future archaeological excavations.
This was done through field surveys and test archaeological excavations. The
excavation conducted in 2017 covered several positions that were assumed
to be archaeological sites based on their toponyms and the information acquired
from local residents. Although a portion of the surveyed positions did
not show any evidence of human activity from the past, the position of Unka,
near the village of Kostrići, and Gradina, near Hrvatska Dubica, yielded significant
results.
The Unka site near the village of Kostrići, although identified some time ago,
has not been excavated up until now, and it was not known to which period it
belonged. With the help of test trenches, it has been established that this is
a source of clay from the prehistoric period. Fragments of prehistoric pottery
and chipped stone tools that were found there bear witness to the exploitation
of this source of clay. The Gradina site near Hrvatska Dubica was mentioned
in older literature as a site from the periods of prehistory and Classical
Antiquity. The systematic field survey has helped establish that this is actually
a site dated to the Middle Ages, as the surface finds of medieval pottery
suggest.
Translated by Lara Fabekovec