Abstract:

During July 2011 the rescue excavations of the site AN 6 Gornji Vukojevac on the Zagreb - Sisak highway route, section Velika Gorica (South) - Lekenik, were continued (Fig. 1). The site is situated at a prominent elevation, featuring the stream Koravec valley to the south. Rescue excavations in 2010 on the southern part of the elevation, on an area approximately 11200 m2 large, defined the remains of Late Bronze Age and Roman settlement as well as the remains of one Roman incineration grave. Rescue excavations in 2011 that were carried out on an area of 5430 m2, covered the northern and north-eastern part of the site. Given the size and the depth of burials, different types were singled out, the most numerous being the pits, trenches and post holes. The largest number of post holes can be connected, which probably represent the remains of houses and storages or fences. (Fig. 2). Few shallow pits of oval shape were singled out, whereas burials of shallow and narrow ditches of an U- or V-section which belong to the infrastructure of the Roman settlement are more numerous (Fig. 3). These are probably the boundaries of yards or gardens, or family lots with the houses most likely situated in the centre and surrounded by various ancillary buildings. In the western part of the exploration, the burial of a trench that could easily be a boundary of the propagation of the Late Bronze Age settlement, was singled out. In the fillings, fragments of pottery vessels, daub, bricks and tegulae were found. Only a small number of ceramic fragments can be dated to the Late Bronze Age. Among the forms of ceramic vessels made on a potter’s wheel, fragments of bowls and pots belonging to the part of the Roman provincial ceramography can be identified. In the eastern part of the explored area rare artefacts belonging to the Late Medieval or Early Modern period settlement were isolated. On the highest section of the site, in the part of the Roman settlement, four incineration graves were found (Fig.5-6) containing the remains of the burned bones, pottery shards and metal artefacts which, like the entire settlement, can be dated from the 1st to the beginning of the 3rd century.

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